interlocutor
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8.3
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈlɒkjʊtər/
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interlocutor
- In Paolo Pino's Dialogo di pittura, published in Venice in 1548, the two interlocutors discuss the signing of pictures.
- real-life interlocutors
- relation between interlocutors
- present interlocutor
And he's he's explaining them to his interlocutor Lokilius, and thereby to to us.
- And he's he's explaining them to his interlocutor Lokilius, and thereby to to us.
- And as a budding speaker, public interlocutor, I just noticed as we're speaking that you're not fidgeting.
- You're kind of role-playing, but with real, real scenarios, real life, not hypothetical scenarios or actors or simulated interlocutors.
- Well, you know, that should for any reasonable interlocutor shine through.
- We cannot see his interlocutors nor hear their ex exhaled breath.
- They will all be approached by USUS aid funded NGOs and interlocutors to do that.
Examples
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Please welcome Chad Hunter Griffin and joining the panel tonight as an interlocutor is Michael Nestitz.
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Why do so many engage these questions and each other as adversaries rather than interlocutors?
Academic text (2013) -
Well, I hope that your interlocutor there is correct.
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Although listening and speaking take place via direct contact with an interlocutor, reading often does so without supervision.
Academic text (2012) -
And many of them also talked about the fact that as key interlocutors between government and communities, they had no resources themselves.
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All of these interlocutors agree that good local government would be inclusive and participatory.
Academic text (2017) -
The negotiators are no longer reciting set positions and shutting out their interlocutor's views.
Academic text (1994) -
Good conversationalists do this for their real-life interlocutors; to do something like it in textual interpretation demands the same skills.
Academic text (1998) -
During the debate, the student acted as an interlocutor, posing challenging questions to the panelists.
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The chatbot served as an interlocutor, answering the user's inquiries about the product.
Synonyms
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8.0
A person who gives feedback on presentations at a conference
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3.5
A computer program that talks to people online to answer questions or help them
A computer program that talks or writes with a user
A computer program that chats with people to answer questions or help them
A program on a computer or phone that talks with people online
A person who talks easily and makes others enjoy talking
How Involved
Surface Forms
Morphology
interlocutor = locutor (transparent) = inter + locutor
The word is directly built from the prefix 'inter-' + the noun 'locutor' meaning 'speaker', yielding 'a participant in dialogue'.
Etymology
Interlocutor comes from the Latin parts inter- 'between' and loqu- 'to speak'. So an interlocutor originally meant 'one who speaks between' and today it means anyone who takes part in a conversation, even a chatbot.