noun
a person who delivers a speech or oration
• Syn: ↑orator, ↑speechmaker, ↑rhetorician, ↑public speaker
• Derivationally related forms: ↑speechify, ↑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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.