orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier
(noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
orator (plural orators)
Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
• speaker
Source: Wiktionary
Or"a*tor, n. Etym: [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) (a) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. (b) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. Burrill.
3. (Eng. Universities)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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