orator

[ awr-uh-ter, or- ]

/ ˈɔr ə tər, ˈɒr- /

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noun

a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.

Law. a plaintiff in a case in a court of equity.

Origin of orator

1325–75; < Latin ōrātor speaker, suppliant, equivalent to ōrā(re) (see oration) + -tor -tor; replacing Middle English oratour < Anglo-French < Latin, as above

OTHER WORDS FROM orator

or·a·tor·like, adjective or·a·tor·ship, noun

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orarion, orarium, orate, orate fratres, oration, orator, oratorian, oratorical, oratorio, oratory, oratrix

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But the Roman orator Cicero felt that Calgacus and the peoples vanquished by Rome were missing a broader point.

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In Canning he found, or rather projected, “a genius, almost a universal one, an orator, a wit, a poet, a statesman.”

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What was jarring was the orator in question—President Nicolas Maduro.

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“100 Years Ago Teddy Roosevelt Got Shot in the Chest, Then Gave a Speech Anyway,” at Mental Floss Talk about an orator.

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President Obama can be, if anything, overrated as an orator.

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Colonel Baker had been senator for Oregon, and was well known as an orator.

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Leave being granted, the Athenian orator entered on his subject by sketching the course of events for the last sixty years.

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The Orator was announced in the bills as "a finished speaker."

Punchinello Vol. II., No. 30, October 22, 1870 |Various
That under excitement speech acquires a certain rhythm, we may occasionally perceive in the highest efforts of an orator.

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Cicero wishes that he had proved himself as good a citizen, as he was an orator.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence |Cornelius Tacitus

British Dictionary definitions for orator

orator

/ (ˈɒrətə) /

noun

a public speaker, esp one versed in rhetoric

a person given to lengthy or pompous speeches

obsolete the claimant in a cause of action in chancery

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