noun
Meaning 1
Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
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noun
Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
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noun
A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
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noun
Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A petitioner, a supplicant.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
a person who delivers a speech or oration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier
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Broader terms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
Narrower terms: eulogist, panegyrist, elocutionist, haranguer, spellbinder, tub-thumper, Burke, Edmund Burke, Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully, Demosthenes, Henry, Patrick Henry, Isocrates
History
From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.
Across languages
88 source translations are retained for this English entry.