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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