commentary

commentary
n
1. annotation, notes, footnotes, scholia, gloss, marginalia; comments, remarks, Latin. adversaria.
2. essay, thesis, dissertation, exposition, expose, study, tract, tractate, monograph, pamphlet, theme, composition, paper; discussion, discourse, lecture, speech, descant, disquisition, sermon, homily; review, opinion, interpretation, criticism; article, editorial, column, piece.
3. explanation, exegesis, elucidation. See comment (def.1).
4.Usually commentaries
chronicle, record, history, archive, documentation, log, minutes, proceedings; journal, diary, memorandum, memoirs, commonplace book; narrative, narration, recital, account, report, chronology, detail, recapitulation, relation, recountal, description, delineation.

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