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reviewer

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,563 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: reviewers

A reviewer is somebody who writes judgements of books or films. A harsh reviewer, the reviewers loved it, sent to reviewers.

In publishing it also means the anonymous experts who assess a paper before a journal will print it, which is peer review and is done unpaid. Both kinds hold a great deal of quiet power.

Definitions of reviewer

  1. 1nounreviewerSomebody who writes judgements of books or films.B1+

    “The reviewer hated the film and gave it just one star.”

reviewer is a critic.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *weyd-

  2. Latin

    revideō

  3. Old French

    reveue

  4. Middle English

    revewe

  5. English

    review

  6. English, today

    reviewer

Built from

  • videō · Latin — see, observe

From review + -er. review comes from Middle English revewe, reveue, from Old French reveue, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of reveu, past participle of reveoir (French: revoir), from Latin revideō, from re- +videō (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re + view. Compare retrospect. a doublet of revue.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

reviewer in the wild

  • The reviewers are experts in the topic at hand and anonymous.

    Peer review

  • The persons performing the checking, excluding the author, are called "reviewers".

    Code review

  • At least one reviewer must not be the code's author.

    Code review

  • Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

    Scott Yanow

  • Robb Alvey (born Robert Lee) is an American roller coaster reviewer and video game producer.

    Robb Alvey

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the videō family

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reviewer — used about once every 6,499 pages · #10,563 · point at the bar for the others