sports commentator

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   an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events

   Synonymssports announcersportscaster

   Broaderannouncer

Questions about sports commentator

What does sports commentator mean?

sports commentator means "an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events".

What is another word for sports commentator?

Close synonyms include sports announcer, sportscaster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sports commentator a common word?

sports commentator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.