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Annotate Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Annotate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments

"The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel"

2

provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

"He annotated on what his teacher had written"

3

To add annotation to.

"The editor annotated the manuscript by adding notes in the margins."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
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Origin

The word annotate comes from the Latin verb annotare, which literally means "to make a note." It entered English with this same sense of marking or adding notes to a text.

Rhyming Words
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