rhetorician
English Thesaurus
1. a person who delivers a speech or oration (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer, |
| definition | : | someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | eulogist, panegyrist, |
| definition | : | an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | elocutionist, |
| definition | : | a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | haranguer, |
| definition | : | a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | spellbinder, |
| definition | : | an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | tub-thumper, |
| definition | : | a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | burke, edmund burke, |
| definition | : | British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cicero, marcus tullius cicero, tully, |
| definition | : | a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | demosthenes, |
| definition | : | Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | henry, patrick henry, |
| definition | : | a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | isocrates, |
| definition | : | Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | rhetoric, |
| definition | : | study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | rhetoric, |
| definition | : | using language effectively to please or persuade (noun.communication) |
| derivation | : | orate, |
| definition | : | talk pompously (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | speechify, |
| definition | : | make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | oratorical, |
| definition | : | characteristic of an orator or oratory (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | rhetoric, |
| definition | : | study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | rhetoric, |
| definition | : | using language effectively to please or persuade (noun.communication) |
| derivation | : | orate, |
| definition | : | talk pompously (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | speechify, |
| definition | : | make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | oratorical, |
| definition | : | characteristic of an orator or oratory (adj.all) |
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