censor

/ˈsɛnsər/

意味: 検閲官

例文: ALX censored June’s diary—too many secrets.
　　  ALXがジューンの日記を検閲。秘密が多すぎた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: censor a book(本を検閲する), censor a movie(映画を検閲する), censor information(情報を検閲する)

定義: 検閲する、特定の情報や内容を削除したり、変更したりすることです。政府や組織が、特定の情報が公開されるのを防ぐために行うことが多いです。

censorは約400,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: someone who censures or condemns
Noun: a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
Verb: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
Verb: subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

The government decided to censor the controversial documentary before its release.(政府は物議を醸すドキュメンタリーの公開前に検閲することを決定した。)
She joked that her mom would censor her social media posts.(彼女は母が自分のSNS投稿を検閲するだろうと冗談を言った。)
In a democratic society, the attempt to censor ideas is deeply concerning.(民主主義社会において、思想を検閲しようとする試みは非常に懸念される。)
Verb: This magazine is censored by the government

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): ban, censor

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): measure, official, outlaw, person

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agent, agnostic, amateur, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, apparatchik, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, bailiff, baldhead, balker, ban, bather, beadle, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, best, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, bodybuilder, bomber, brunet, bullfighter, bureaucrat, buster, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, caretaker, case, cashier, celebrant, censor, census taker, chameleon, changer, charmer, child, church officer, chutzpanik, city father, civil servant, closer, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commissar, commoner, communicator, complexifier, comptroller general, comptroller of the currency, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, counterterrorist, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, dancer, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, dieter, differentiator, diplomat, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, domestic partner, double, dresser, dribbler, drug user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elected official, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, equerry, ethnic, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, fastener, female, fiduciary, fire marshall, fire warden, first-rater, follower, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gentile, good guy, good person, grade, granter, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, hearing examiner, heterosexual, holdover, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, incumbent, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, inquisitor, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, invalidator, jat, jew, jewel, judge, jumper, junior, juvenile, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, leo, libra, licenser, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, loved one, lover, macebearer, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, mandarin, manipulator, married, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, notary, noticer, nude, nurser, occultist, officeholder, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, pisces, pisser, planner, player, postmaster general, posturer, powderer, praise, precursor, preserver, primitive, proconsul, propositus, prosecutor, provincial, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quaestor, quarter, quitter, radical, rate, realist, reassess, recruiter, rectifier, redhead, registrant, registrar, regulator, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, returning officer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, rusher, sagittarius, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, sealer, searcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, showman, signer, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, standardize, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, stranger, struggler, subject, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tapper, taurus, teller, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, town clerk, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trier, turner, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, usher, vanisher, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, vizier, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, weakling, weasel, weigher, white, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, worker, worldling, yawner

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): edit, embargo

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: ban, censor, censorial, censorious, censorship

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, disgust, fear, negative, trust