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

Following more than three hours of meeting time devoted to presentations by county staff and project representatives and approximately 75 public commenters, the board voted 5-0 to approve the long-running and controversial Upper Westside Project. —Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026

On the national team’s social media accounts, many commenters mocked them for big defeats. —ABC News, 17 June 2026

And as one Vulture commenter has pointed out, the moment when Tom and Wyck (Stephen Root) find Patricia walking home pays direct homage to a similar moment in Brian De Palma’s 1976 film adaptation. —Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026

The same reactions have played out online, where commenters continue to debate whether the name is brilliant or bizarre. —Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above