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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?ns?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?ns?/
• Homophones: censer, sensor
• Rhymes: -?ns?(?)
• Hyphenation: cens?or

Etymology 1

The noun is borrowed from Latin c?nsor (“magistrate; critic”), from c?nse? (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”) + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). C?nse? is derived from Proto-Italic *kens??, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?ens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit ????? (?a?sati, “to declare”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

censor (plural censors)

1. (Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.

   Synonyms: censorian, (both obsolete) censurer
2. (Ancient China, historical) A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
3. An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

   Synonym: (obsolete) censurer
4. (education) A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution.
5. (obsolete) One who censures or condemns.

   Synonym: censurer

Usage notes

Not to be confused with censer (“container for burning incense; person who perfumes with incense”) or censure (“act of condemning as wrong; official reprimand”).

Alternative forms

• censour (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

censor (third-person singular simple present censors, present participle censoring, simple past and past participle censored)

1. (transitive) To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).

   Synonyms: bowdlerize, expurgate, expunge, redact

   Antonym: decensor

Translations

Etymology 2

From an incorrect translation of German Zensur (“censorship”).

Noun

censor (plural censors)

1. (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind.

Translations

References

Further reading

• censorship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman censor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• censor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• censor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• censor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Cerons, Cosner, Crones, Oncers, crones, crosne, necros, oncers, recons, scorne, sercon

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n?so/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen?so?/

• Homophone: sensor

Noun

censor m (plural censors, feminine censora)

1. censor

Related terms

• censura
• censurar

Further reading

• “censor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin censor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.z?r/
• Hyphenation: cen?sor
• Rhymes: -?nz?r
• Homophone: sensor

Noun

censor m (plural censors, diminutive censortje n)

1. censor

Related terms

• censureren
• census
• censuur

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sensor (“censor”)

Latin

Etymology

From c?nse? (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) +? -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.sor/, [?k??s??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.sor/, [?t???ns?r]

Noun

c?nsor m (genitive c?ns?ris); third declension

1. censor
2. provincial magistrate with similar duties.
3. a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• c?nsitor
• c?ns?rius
• c?ns?ra

Descendants

References

• censor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• censor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• censor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• censor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• censor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• censor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsor.

Pronunciation

Adjective

censor m (feminine singular censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras, comparable)

1. censoring

   Synonym: censurador

Noun

censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)

1. (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
2. censor (official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content)
3. censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)

   Synonyms: censurador, censuradora

Related terms

• censura f
• censurar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?en?so?/, [??n?so?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sen?so?/, [s?n?so?]

Adjective

censor (feminine censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras)

1. censoring

   Synonyms: censurador, censuradora

Noun

censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)

1. (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
2. censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)

   Synonyms: censurador, censuradora

3. censor (a census administrator)

Related terms

• censura f
• censurar

Further reading

• “censor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

censor c

1. (classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
2. censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content

Declension

Related terms

• censur

See also

• sensor

English

Alternative forms

• censitarian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin censitarius, from Latin censere "assess (for tax)". Compare French censitaire, Spanish and Italian censitario.

Adjective

censitary (not comparable)

1. (historical) (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted
   • 1895 "The Present Condition of Russia" Peter Kropotkin, Littell's Living Age (reprinted from Nineteenth Century) Volume 207, Number 2677 (26 October 1895) p.223, fn:

     The composition of the Provincial and District Assemblies out of representatives of the three orders (peasants, clergy, and nobles), and the censitary provisions taken for keeping the representatives of the peasants in a minority, were, as experience has shown, a useless and vexatious precaution.

   • 1988 "Peasant movements and communal property during the French Revolution" David Hunt, Theory and Society Volume 17, Number 2, p.255:

     By 1791-92, the two camps were moving toward a property-based, or censitary, compromise

Antonyms

• universal

Related terms

• cense, censor, census

Anagrams

• centirays, insectary