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

Another commenter focused on what his comments revealed about future responsibilities. —Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026

Bloom’s Instagram post announcing the closure was flooded with commenters disappointed at the news. —Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026

What Reviews Say Many of the recipe’s commenters (of which there are over 300) who have ended up making Divorce Carrot Cake for themselves give it rave reviews. —Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026

Many of the commenters were tickled by the cat facing a life-and-death situation and coming away bored. —Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 31 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above