About The Word Orator
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Orator
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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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