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Orator

Orator Meaning & Definition
Orator Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Orator?

[n] a person who delivers a speech or oration

Synonyms | Synonyms for Orator: public speaker | rhetorician | speechifier | speechmaker

Related Terms | Find terms related to Orator:

See Also | Burke | Cicero | demagog | demagogue | Demosthenes | Edmund Burke | elocutionist | eulogist | haranguer | Henry | Isocrates | Marcus Tullius Cicero | panegyrist | Patrick Henry | rabble-rouser | speaker | spellbinder | talker | tub-thumper | Tully | utterer | verbaliser | verbalizer

Orator In Webster's Dictionary

\Or"a*tor\, n. [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) 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}.

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