noun
a person who delivers a speech or oration
• Syn: ↑orator, ↑rhetorician, ↑public speaker, ↑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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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun : one who makes speeches
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—speechmaking, n.
/speech"may'keuhr/, n.
a person who delivers speeches.
[1700-10; SPEECH + MAKER]
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speechˈmaker noun
Someone who speaks, or is accustomed to speaking, in public
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Main Entry: ↑speech
Useful english dictionary. 2012.