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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
debater
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But is he a better-humored debater?
▪ Dole is a wise and experienced debater.
▪ He was a debater, if not an intellectual.
▪ He was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue in polemics and a nice touch in irony in writing.
▪ Though small and frail, he was a powerful and lucid debater.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debater

Debater \De*bat"er\, n. One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters.
--Shak.

Wiktionary
debater

n. One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues.

WordNet
debater

n. someone who engages in debate [syn: arguer]

Usage examples of "debater".

Villiers made a calm and effective reply, in which he especially directed his skill as a debater to the exposure of the fallacies of Sir Robert Peel, whose ignorance or partizanship he handled with a calm and dignified severity.

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.

He was a brilliant debater, well versed in parliamentary law, and at all points fully equipped for the conflict.

While by no means taking the highest rank as a debater, he was familiar with the complicated rules governing the House, and his opinion challenged the highest respect.

He came promptly to the front as a ready debater and skilful parliamentarian.

He was a born debater, full of resources, and aggressive to the last degree.

That he possessed rare power as a debater, all who heard him can bear witness.

It is not the Lincoln of history, but Lincoln the country lawyer, the debater, the candidate of his party for political office, with whom we have now to do.

House of Representatives what Charles James Fox was to the British House of Commons--the most accomplished debater our country has known.

He was audacious in assault, apparently reckless in his modes of defense, and in all respects a debater of strong and notable characteristics.

He was an industrious student, a strong debater, possessed of great capacity for work, and had always maintained a spotless reputation.

Not prominent as a debater, he yet spoke with directness and fluency, and was always listened to by the House.

Burdette, a man of force and readiness as a debater, was one of his colleagues, as was also Erastus Wells, a Democrat of character and personality.

Conger of Michigan was a well-trained debater before he entered the House, and at once took a prominent position in its deliberations.

In intellectual power, amply developed and thoroughly trained, in force as a debater, both forensic and Parliamentary, Mr.