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Definitions for Censor

[1] an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
[2] any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
[3] an adverse critic; faultfinder.
[4] (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
[5] (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.
[6] to examine and act upon as a censor.
[7] to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
[8] a person authorized to examine publications, theatrical presentations, films, letters, etc, in order to suppress in whole or part those considered obscene, politically unacceptable, etc
[9] any person who controls or suppresses the behaviour of others, usually on moral grounds
[10] (in republican Rome) either of two senior magistrates elected to keep the list of citizens up to date, control aspects of public finance, and supervise public morals
[11] psychoanal the postulated factor responsible for regulating the translation of ideas and desires from the unconscious to the conscious mind See also superego
[12] to ban or cut portions of (a publication, film, letter, etc)
[13] to act as a censor of (behaviour, etc)

Words related to Censor

blacklist, excise, edit, suppress, withhold, restrict, sanitize, abridge, delete, control, examine, cut, review, repress, sterilize, restrain, expurgate, inspect, launder, cork

Words nearby Censor

cenotaph, cenote, cenozoic, cense, censer, censor, censorious, censorship, censurable, censure, census

Origin of Censor

1525–35; < Latin cēnsor, equivalent to cēns(ēre ) to give as one's opinion, recommend, assess + -tor -tor; -sor for *-stor by analogy with derivatives from dentals, as tōnsor barber (see tonsorial)

Words that may be confused with Censor

censer, censor, censure, sensor

Other words from Censor

cen·sor·a·ble , adjective
cen·so·ri·al [sen-sawr -ee-uh  l, -sohr -] /sɛnˈsɔr i əl, -ˈsoʊr-/ , cen·so·ri·an , adjective
an·ti·cen·so·ri·al , adjective
non·cen·sored , adjective
o·ver·cen·sor , verb (used with object)
pre·cen·sor , verb (used with object)
re·cen·sor , verb (used with object)
un·cen·sor·a·ble , adjective
un·cen·sored , adjective

Word origin for Censor

C16: from Latin, from cēnsēre to consider, assess

Synonyms for Censor

abridge, black out, blacklist, delete, edit, excise, restrict, sanitize, suppress, withhold, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, conceal, control, cork, criticize, cut, decontaminate, examine, expurgate, inspect, launder, narrow, oversee, purge, purify, repress, restrain, review, revile, squelch, sterilize, clean up, drop the iron curtain, exscind, prevent publication, put the lid on, refuse transmission, scissor out, strike out, supervise communications