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critic (krit′ik)

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
  2. a person who indulges in faultfinding and censure

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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