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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | criticus, from Greek kritikos, from krinein; CRITERION |
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crit‧ic W3
[countable]
[countable]1 someone whose job is to make judgments about the good and bad qualities of art, music, films etc [= reviewer]
a review by the theatre critic of the Sunday Times2 someone who criticizes a person, organization, or idea
3 someone who criticizes other people but who does not have any proper experience of the activity the other people are doing
armchair critic
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critic, review, criticism, critique!! Do not use critic to refer to something that a critic says or writes.A review is the usual word for a short article that a critic writes in a newspaper or magazine • His first novel got wonderful reviews. • Have you read the reviews of her play?criticism is the activity of publishing opinions about things such as books and films, or a group of essays, lectures etc on this subject • a collection of literary criticismA critique is a detailed explanation of the problems of something such as a set of political ideas, in the form of a speech, book, article etc • He wrote a critique of capitalism.
word choice critic, review, criticism, critique!! Do not use critic to refer to something that a critic says or writes.A review is the usual word for a short article that a critic writes in a newspaper or magazine • His first novel got wonderful reviews. • Have you read the reviews of her play?criticism is the activity of publishing opinions about things such as books and films, or a group of essays, lectures etc on this subject • a collection of literary criticismA critique is a detailed explanation of the problems of something such as a set of political ideas, in the form of a speech, book, article etc • He wrote a critique of capitalism.
