commenter

noun

com·​ment·​er ˈkä-ˌmen-tər 

variants or less commonly commentor

plural commenters also commentors

: one who comments

especially : one who leaves a comment on an Internet site, story, page, etc.

… every blogger and commenter and self-anointed pundit, could outperform any robot writer at a fraction of the cost.

—Paul Di Filippo

Many websites which allow users to leave comments … use a system called Captcha to check that the commenter is not a computer programme (or 'bot') leaving spam comments.

—Nick Poyntz

Examples of commenter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some commenters suggested that many people in the crowd may have been new to Charlotte and unaware of the brewery’s past. —Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 15 Mar. 2026

Some commenters said the situation improved later Sunday morning. —Dan Gallo, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026

Layla is also candid about how online commenters have affected her. —Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026

Lee’s Summit’s broadcasts of city council meetings will no longer show the faces of public commenters under a new city policy implemented in response to a candidate’s use of city video for his campaign. —Nathan Pilling march 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above