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RHETORICIAN
orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier
(noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rhetorician (plural rhetoricians)
An expert or student of rhetoric.
An orator or eloquent public speaker.
Source: Wiktionary
Rhet`o*ri"cian, n. Etym: [Cf. F. rhétoricien.]
1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.
2. A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon.
3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.
Rhet`o*ri"cian, a.
Definition: Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." Blackmore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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