censor
Pronunciation Noun
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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 was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been of 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.
- French: censeur
- German: Zensor, Zensurin
- Portuguese: censurador, censuradora, censor, censora
- Russian: це́нзор
- Spanish: censurador, censuradora, censor, censora
- German: Zensur, Zensurin
- Portuguese: censurador, censuradora, censor, censora
- Russian: це́нзор
- Spanish: censurador, censuradora, censor, censora
- Russian: цензу́ра
censor (censors, present participle censoring; 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
- (remove objectionable material) bowdlerize
- French: caviarder (familiar)
- Italian: censurare
- Portuguese: censurar
- Russian: подверга́ть цензуре
- Spanish: censurar
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