Censor

Noun

 * 1)  A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
 * 2) An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
 * 3) One who censures or condemns
 * 4)  A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious

Verb

 * 1)  To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
 * 2)  To remove objectionable content

Adjectives for Censor
royal; strict; sternest; formidable; official; prejudiced; incompetent.

Verbs for Censor
assign to—; elect—; escape —s; moderate for —s; offend —s; submit to —s; —approves; —bans; —bars; —blames; —clamps down; —condemns; —criticizes; —cuts out; —examines; —exercises;  —guards; —grants; —inquires; —inspects; —investigates; —judges; —preserves; —prohibits; —reviews; —slashes; —supervises; —torments.

Synonyms

 * censurer

Related terms

 * censorial
 * censorious
 * censorship
 * censure
 * census

Thesaurus
clamp down on, clean up, cognoscente, commentator, commenter, common scold, connoisseur, conscience, conscientiousness, cork, cork up, crack down on, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cross out, crush, cut, cut out, damp down, delete, drown, edit, edit out, editor, erase, ethical self, excise, expunge, expurgate, extinguish, faultfinder, frondeur, gag, grace, hold down, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, inner arbiter, inward monitor, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, literary critic, man of letters, momus, monopolist, moral censor, muckraker, muffle, muzzle, narrow, nitpicker, omit, pettifogger, pour water on, protectionist, purge, purify, put down, quash, quell, quench, quibbler, repress, rescind, restrain, restrict, restrictionist, reviewer, rub out, scholiast, scold, screen, shush, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smellfungus, smother, social conscience, social critic, squash, squelch, stanch, stifle, strangle, strike, strike off, strike out, stultify, subdue, suffocate, superego, suppress, tender conscience, textual critic, throttle, twinge of conscience, voice of conscience, void, abbreviate, abridge, annotator, asphyxiate, belittler, black out, bleach, blip, blot out, blue-pencil, bottle up, bowdlerize, cancel, captious critic, carper, caviler, censurer, choke off,

Etymology
From censor: < censo:.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: цензор
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: cenzor


 * Romanian: cenzor
 * Russian: цензор
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: цензор
 * Czech: cenzor
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: צנזור


 * Hungarian: cenzor
 * Romanian: cenzor
 * Russian: цензор
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, censora


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hungarian: cenzor


 * Russian: цензор
 * Spanish:, censora


 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian: цензура


 * : censeur
 * : צנזור (tzenzor), צנזורית (tzenzoryt) (3)
 * : צנזור (tzenzor), צנזורית (tzenzoryt) (3)
 * : צנזור (tzenzor), צנזורית (tzenzoryt) (3)


 * : censur-isto, censoro
 * : (1,2,3)

Verb

 * Bulgarian: цензурирам
 * Czech: cenzurovat
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: подвергать цензуре, просматривать


 * Bulgarian: цензурирам
 * Czech: cenzurovat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: צינזר
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: censurare
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: подвергать цензуре
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * : censurere
 * : censurer


 * : censurera
 * : censurera

Anagrams

 * crones, crosne, oncers, recons

Noun

 * 1) censor

Related terms

 * censureren
 * census
 * censuur

Noun

 * 1) A Roman collegial state magistrate; one of two officials officially sworn to duty taking a census of the Romans, later evolved into a high moral office.
 * 2) A provincial magistrate with similar duties.
 * 3) A critic, especially a severe one of morals and society.

Related terms

 * censitor
 * censura

Adjective

 * 1) censoring

Noun

 * 1) censor

Related terms

 * censura
 * censurar

Noun

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

Related terms

 * censur