noun
a person who delivers a speech or oration
• Syn: ↑orator, ↑speechmaker, ↑rhetorician, ↑speechifier
• Derivationally related forms: ↑speechify (for: ↑speechifier), ↑rhetoric (for: ↑rhetorician), ↑oratorical (for: ↑orator), ↑orate (for: ↑orator)
• Hypernyms: ↑speaker, ↑talker, ↑utterer, ↑verbalizer, ↑verbaliser
• Hyponyms: ↑eulogist, ↑panegyrist, ↑elocutionist, ↑haranguer, ↑spellbinder, ↑tub-thumper
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Burke, ↑Edmund Burke, ↑Cicero, ↑Marcus Tullius Cicero, ↑Tully, ↑Demosthenes, ↑Henry, ↑Patrick Henry, ↑Isocrates
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noun : one skilled in public speaking
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public speaker noun, pl ⋯ -ers [count]
She's a gifted public speaker.
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Main Entry: ↑public speaking
Useful english dictionary. 2012.