reviewer

English

Etymology

From review +‎ -er.

Noun

reviewer (plural reviewers)

1. A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.

   Synonym: critic

   • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

     AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. [...] Such a disappointing work is embarrassing to the reviewer and unworthy of the great House of Cassell.

2. An inspector.
   • 2007, Mary Choate, Organic Lies:

     The cost of initial site evaluation visits will vary with the cost of travel from the USDA reviewer's duty station to the applicant's place of business.

Translations

critic

• Bulgarian: рецензент m (recenzent)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 評論家 / 评论家 (ping⁴ leon⁶ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 評論家 / 评论家 (zh) (pínglùnjiā)

• Czech: recenzent m
• Danish: recensent (da) c
• Dutch: recensent (nl) m
• Esperanto: recenzisto
• Finnish: arvostelija (fi), kriitikko (fi)
• French: relecteur (fr) m, réviseur (fr) m
• German: Rezensent (de) m, Rezensentin (de) f
• Hungarian: recenzens (hu)
• Irish: léirmheastóir m
• Italian: recensore (it)
• Japanese: 評論家 (ja) (ひょうろんか, hyōronka)
• Maori: kaiarotake
• Portuguese: crítico (pt) m
• Romanian: recenzent (ro) m
• Russian: рецензе́нт (ru) m (recenzént), рецензе́нтка (ru) f (recenzéntka)
• Scottish Gaelic: lèirmheasaiche m
• Spanish: reseñista, reseñante m or f, crítico (es) m, reseñador m, recensor m
• Swedish: recensent (sv) c
• Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
• Vietnamese: nhà phê bình
• Welsh: adolygydd m

Anagrams

• rereview