1 [C,U] ~ (about / on sth) something that you say or write which gives an opinion on or explains sb/sth:
Have you any comment to make about the cause of the disaster? * She made helpful comments on my work. * The director was not available for comment. * He handed me the document without comment. * (especially BrE) What she said was fair comment (= a reasonable criticism).
2 [sing.,U] criticism that shows the faults of sth:
The results are a clear comment on government education policy. * There was a lot of comment about his behaviour.
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no comment (said in reply to a question, usually from a journalist) I have nothing to say about that:
'Will you resign, sir?' 'No comment!'
verb ~ (on / upon sth) to express an opinion about sth: [V] I don't feel I can comment on their decision. * He refused to comment until after the trial. * We were just commenting on how well you look. * [Vthat] A spokesperson commented that levels of carbon dioxide were very high. * [Vspeech] 'Not his best performance,' she commented to the woman sitting next to her.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for comment is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is comment a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, comment is tagged as noun.
Does comment appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — comment appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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