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From Latin cēnsor < censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).
Pronunciation
Noun
censor (plural censors)
- (history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
- The Ancient censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
- The headmaster is an even stricter censor for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been for his own when the country was occupied.
- One who censures or condemns
- (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
- (acronym) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios
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Verb
censor (third-person singular simple present censors, present participle censoring, simple past and past participle censored)
- (transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- (transitive) To remove objectionable content
- Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance
Translations
to review in order to remove objectionable content
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External links
- censor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- censor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Etymology
Latin
Noun
censor m. (plural censors, diminutive censortje, diminutive plural censortjes)
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Latin
Noun
cēnsor (genitive cēnsōris); m, third declension
- A Roman collegial state magistrate; one of two officials officially sworn to duty taking a census of the Romans, later evolved into a high moral office.
- A provincial magistrate with similar duties.
- A critic, especially a severe one of morals and society.
Related terms
- censitor m.
- censura
Spanish
Adjective
censor m. and f. (plural censores)
Noun
censor m. (plural censores)
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Swedish
Noun
censor c.
- (classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
- censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
Declension
Declension of censor| singular | plural | |||
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| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | censor | censorn | censorer | censorerna |
| genitive | censors | censorns | censorers | censorernas |
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Look up censor or censorship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. For Wikipedia's policy concerning censorship, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not censored Censor may refer to:
- Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression
- Roman censor, a magistrate for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, etc.
- Cato Censor (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234BCE–149BCE), Roman statesman
- Censor Librorum, a Church official who approves and, if necessary, removes material from texts for publication
- Censor (imperial China), standard translation of Chinese 御史 (yushi) - a government official whose duties involved criticizing other officials
- Censoring (statistics), the situation when the value of an observation is only partially known
- Censor (film), a 2001 film written and directed by Dev Anand
- "Censor" (song), a single released by the band Skinny Puppy for the song "Dogshit" in 1988
- Censor (Christ Church, Oxford), the Student of Christ Church, Oxford undertaking disciplinary duties assigned to deans of other colleges
- Censor of St Cuthbert's Society, employed by University of Durham to oversee Society members
- Censor (Royal College of Physicians), the Royal College of Physicians' police
- Censored (band) , East Midlands trio formed in 2004, split in 2008.
See also
- Sensor, a device or organ that detects or senses a signal or its environment
- Censure, a formal reprimand
- Censer, a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense
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