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orator
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: speechmaker , rhetorician , public speaker , speechifier ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Keyes is a fiery orator who built his campaign around his anti-abortion stand. ▪ Ogilvy had a reputation as a great orator . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aristotle once recommended to the would-be polemical orator that paradox ...
Usage examples of orator.
He possessed the elegant accomplishments of a poet and orator, which dignify as well as adorn the humblest and the most exalted station.
Previous to the time of Socrates, orators in addressing popular assemblies, lawyers in pleading cases, and all public speakers, appear to have made use of the cithara as a sort of accompaniment, if for no other purpose than to assure themselves of securing a proper pitch of the voice.
Lynn, and while yet his own party scarcely ventured to hope anything from his leadership, Lord George proved himself an orator and a debater, a party tactician, and an energetic, vigilant, intelligent chief of opposition.
The eldest, who was the orator of the company, told me that their mother was in prison, and that they would have to pass the night in the street if I did not take pity on them.
No need to imitate the gestures of elocution, it is nature, not art, that makes the elocutionist and the orator.
No orator had espoused with more seeming heartiness various liberal opinions, which he abandoned when he became a pet of the Whigs.
Hedrigall was a brilliant orator, his fabler training making his descriptions and explanations sound like wildly exciting stories.
On this memorable occasion, Sidonius, whose early ambition had been so fatally blasted, appeared as the orator of Auvergne, among the provincial deputies who addressed the throne with congratulations or complaints.
My own idea is, that I should succeed better in the calm argumentative debates in Parliament, than as a hustings orator, or a popular declaimer.
I wondered what figure Stanley would make as a hustings orator, and what impression in his canvass.
Nazarius and Eusebius are the two most celebrated orators, who, in studied panegyrics, have labored to exalt the glory of Constantine.
Karl Lueger had been a brilliant orator, but the Pan-German Party had lacked effective public speakers.
But on the odiousness of employing the wild Indians against a Christian people, the views of the whole of the opposition orators coincided.
Orator, Lucius Licinius Crassus, the husbands of his two daughters have fared oppositely in the nursery.
If to throw off the shackles of Old World pedantry, and defy the paltry rules and examples of grammarians and rhetoricians, is the special province and the chartered privilege of the American writer, Timothy Dexter is the founder of a new school, which tramples under foot the conventionalities that hampered and subjugated the faculties of the poets, the dramatists, the historians, essayists, story-tellers, orators, of the worn-out races which have preceded the great American people.