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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orator
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 could be effective.
▪ He knows he is no orator, and he is up against a president who could charm a loan from a thief.
▪ He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge.
▪ Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a fiery orator and champion of the poor won the election in a landslide.
▪ On the other hand Osman was a practised orator and knew what he was doing.
▪ While Tom got ready I walked around the area to check on what the other orators at Speakers' Corner were saying.
▪ Yet what alternative was there for a female orator?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orator

Orator \Or"a*tor\, n. [L., fr. orare to speak, utter. See Oration.]

  1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.

    I am no orator, as Brutus is.
    --Shak.

    Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome.
    --Milton.

  2. (Law)

    1. In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.

    2. A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
      --Burrill.

  3. (Eng. Universities) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
orator

late 14c., "one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur), from Latin orator "speaker," from orare "to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray, plead," from PIE root *or- "to pronounce a ritual formula" (cognates: Sanskrit aryanti "they praise," Homeric Greek are, Attic ara "prayer," Hittite ariya- "to ask the oracle," aruwai- "to revere, worship"). Meaning "public speaker" is attested from early 15c.

Wiktionary
orator

alt. 1 Someone who orates or delivers an oration. 2 A skilled and eloquent public speaker. n. 1 Someone who orates or delivers an oration. 2 A skilled and eloquent public speaker.

WordNet
orator

n. a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier]

Wikipedia
Orator (comics)

Orator (Victor Ludwig) was a minor fictional character from Marvel Comics.

Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a public speaker. An orator may also be called an oratorian — literally, "one who orates".

Orator (Cicero)

Orator was written by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the latter part of the year 46 B.C. It is his last work on rhetoric, three years before his death. Describing rhetoric, Cicero addresses previous comments on the five canons of rhetoric: Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria, and Pronuntiatio. In this text, Cicero attempts to describe the perfect orator, in response to Marcus Junius Brutus’ request. Orator is the continuation of a debate between Brutus and Cicero, which originated in his text Brutus, written earlier in the same year.

The oldest partial text of Orator was recovered in the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel and now is located in the library at Avranches. Thirty-seven existing manuscripts have been discovered from this text. Another complete text was discovered in 1421, near Milan in the town of Lodi. These two texts vary considerably between the two manuscripts and modern translators rely on both.

In 46. B.C, when Cicero wrote Orator, many young Roman men revolted against the stylistic paradigms put forward by Cicero, and from most Roman traditions in general. Cicero writes in a defensive posture to this hostile audience.

Orator (disambiguation)

An orator is a person who speaks in public.

Orator may also refer to:

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.