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Definition of Public speaker
1. Noun. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
Specialized synonyms: Eulogist, Panegyrist, Elocutionist, Haranguer, Spellbinder, Tub-thumper
Generic synonyms: Speaker, Talker, Utterer, Verbaliser, Verbalizer
Specialized synonyms: Burke, Edmund Burke, Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully, Demosthenes, Henry, Patrick Henry, Isocrates
Derivative terms: Orate, Oratorical, Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Speechify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Speaker
Literary usage of Public speaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"... for that individual a high reputation for talent, intelligence and eloquence,
as a public speaker, and for integrity and private worth as a gentleman. ..."
2. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the Anti-slavery by Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier (1881)
"Mr. Garrison's Last Tears — Tokens of Public Respect — His Activity in Reforms —
His Power as a public speaker — His Modesty — His Hopefulness — His Private ..."
3. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the Anti-slavery by Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier (1881)
"... Garrison's Last Years — Tokens of Public Respect — His Activity in Reforms —
His Power as a public speaker — His Modesty — His Hopefulness — His Private ..."
4. Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences by Oliver Hampton Smith (1858)
"Mr. Brooks was in the meridian of life, in fine health, the last time I saw him,
with time still before him, to do much good as a writer, and public speaker ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1889)
"He has attained reputation as a public speaker. Among his addresses are one
welcoming Stephen A. Douglas to Chicago in 1860, and one on Sidney ..."
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