Definition of
Censor
- (noun, person) a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
- (noun, person) someone who censures or condemns
- (verb, cognition) subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
- (verb, social) forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
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Synonyms of Censor
Alternate forms of Censor
Derivations: censor, censorial, censorious, censorship
Hyponyms: blue-pencil, delete, edit, embargo
Hypernyms: appraise, assess, criminalise, criminalize, evaluate, functionary, illegalise, illegalize, individual, measure, mortal, official, outlaw, person, somebody, someone, soul, valuate, value
Origin of the word Censor
- 1531, Roman magistrate who took censuses and oversaw public morals, from L. censere "to appraise, value, judge," from PIE base *kens- "speak solemnly, announce." Transferred sense of "officious judge of morals and conduct" is from 1592; of books, plays, later films, etc., 1644. The verb is from 1882. more
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