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Definition of Orator
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
Definition of Orator
1. n. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
Definition of Orator
1. Noun. Someone who orates or delivers an oration. ¹
2. Noun. A skilled and eloquent public speaker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orator
1. one that orates [n -S] - See also: orates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orator
Literary usage of Orator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"And in this behalf your orator further avers that the said solvent credits so
held as aforesaid by banks and bankers in the said city and county of |lO4]San ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
""That your orator is entitled to the immediate possession of the said evidences
of debt, to wit, registered bonds, for all purposes, and is in urgent need ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1913)
"... on both sides to be arbitrato™ wth your orator nominated thereby to ...
orator a Competent recompence in respect of the great losses your orator had re- ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"He was the son of Marcus Antonius the orator, and an uncle of Mark Antony.
ANTONIUS, Marcus, famous Roman lawyer surnamed the orator: b. 143 BC ; d. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"In his treatise on the orator, and particularly in the first book, Cicero has
given his opinion of the duties of an orator and his requisite qualifications, ..."
6. Acres of Diamonds by Russell Herman Conwell, Robert Shackleton (1915)
"IV HIS POWER AS orator AND PREACHER EVEN as a young man Conwell won local ...
He is an orator born, and has developed this inborn power by the hardest of ..."
7. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"... Oxonian and the Cambridge orator concerning the antiquity of either University,
one which will become more serious if the dispute is not settled . ..."
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