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The definition of a critic is someone who evaluates or makes judgments on people or things, or a person whose job it is to evaluate and write about what they experience, especially art, literature and food.

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An example of a critic is someone who reviews movies.

See critic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. a person who forms and expresses judgments of people or things according to certain standards or values
2. such a person whose profession is to write or broadcast such judgments of books, music, paintings, sculpture, plays, films, television, etc., as for a newspaper
a person who indulges in faultfinding and censure

Origin: L criticus < Gr kritikos, a critic, orig., critical, able to discern < krinein: see crisis

See critic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

One who forms and expresses judgments of the merits, faults, value, or truth of a matter.
One who specializes especially professionally in the evaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic works: a film critic; a dance critic.
One who tends to make harsh or carping judgments; a faultfinder.

Origin:

Origin: Latin criticus

Origin: , from Greek kritikos, able to discern

Origin: , from kritēs, judge

Origin: , from krīnein, to separate, judge; see krei- in Indo-European roots

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