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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reviewer \Re*view"er\, noun One who reviews or re["e]xamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reviewer
noun
1: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication [syn: {referee}, {reader}]
2: a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day [syn: {commentator}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "reviewer": advertising writer, analysis, annalist, annotator, art critic, audit, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, book reviewer, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer, checkup, coauthor, cognoscente, collaborator, columnist, comment, commentator, commenter, compiler, composer, connoisseur, copywriter, creative writer, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, critique, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, editor, editorial writer, editorialist, encyclopedist, essayist, expositor, expounder, faultfinder, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, glossarist, glossographer, humorist, inditer, inspection, leader writer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, muckraker, music critic, news analyst, newspaper, newspaperman, notice, novelettist, novelist, organ, pamphleteer, penwoman, periodical, poet, prose writer, publicist, recension, reconsideration, redraft, reflection, rescript, retrospect, retrospection, revisal, revise, revision, scan, scenario writer, scenarist, scholiast, scribe, scriptwriter, scrutiny, second thought, short-story writer, smellfungus, social critic, storyteller, study, survey, technical writer, textual critic, view, word painter, wordsmith, writer
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