Learner's definition of CONTEXT. [count, noncount] 1. : the words that are used with a certain word or phrase and that help to explain its meaning. To really know a word, you must be able to use it in context. [=in a sentence with other words] [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. â If the words that someone has said are taken or quoted out of context, they are repeated without explaining the situation in which they were said so that their meaning is changed. When taken out of context, his comments sound cruel, but he was really only joking.
Stephen Colbert will succeed David Letterman as host of The Late Show, CBS announced Thursday, one week after Letterman told his audience that he would retire sometime in 2015. CBS said Colbert had signed a five-year contract to helm the iconic late-night broadcast.
James Kimberley Corden, OBE (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, writer, producer, comedian, and television host. He currently hosts the late-night television talk show The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS, succeeding Craig Ferguson, whose decade-long tenure on The Late Late Show ended in December 2014. Corden has also presented the Sky 1 comedy panel show A League of Their Own since 2010. Corden co-created, co-wrote and starred in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey (2007â2010), for which he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy Performance.