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- pronunciation:
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- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an official who decides what art, movies, or books may be published. A censor works for a government, religion, or other organization, and promotes its ideas.
During the war, military censors didn't allow news reporters to publish anything that might hurt the war effort.- similar words:
- inspector
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| definition 2: |
anyone who exercises control over information or ideas.
The office manager became a censor when he told us we couldn't send personal e-mail. |
| related words: |
critic |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
censors, censoring, censored |
| definition: |
to examine and control the content of.
Although she believes in freedom of speech, my teacher censors our student newspaper.- similar words:
- edit, examine, inspect, police, scrutinize
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| related words: |
muzzle |
| derivation: |
censorable (adj.) |
The word censor
contains the following part:
-er, -or, -ar2
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means a person or thing that does
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -er
, -or
, -ar2 turns verbs into agent nouns.
Example words:
actor, administrator, builder, batter3, beggar, broiler, burglar, captor, carrier, censor, cleaner, commissioner, computer, consumer, container, dancer, diner, director, doctor, driver, employer, farmer, freezer, liar, manager, motor, painter1, pitcher2, player, potter, preacher, razor, refrigerator, reporter, runner, sailor, sculptor, seller, singer, speaker, survivor, teacher, tractor, user, vendor, washer, worker, writer
- synonyms:
- -ist, -ite2, -ator, -an, -ian, -ean
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