orator
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- noun
- /ˈɔːrətər/
- Formal
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- During the debate, the candidate proved to be a skilled orator, easily captivating the audience with his arguments.
- a fiery orator
- a great orator
- ancient orators
Every great orator is a great listener.
- Every great orator is a great listener.
- Well, that's a a trick that all good orators understand.
- I really, I, I, I would like to become a better orator with people.
- And so when you find a, a great orator, Douglas Murray is another guy that can really do this.
- Beecher was the orator of the day, and Beecher never gave short speeches.
- And so you have this like, fantastically powerful orator who's painting this vision of the end of the world.
- And he became recognized by sheer, persistent, dogged staying with it as probably the greatest orator whoever lived.
- And then you have Obama who was just MW, you know, mega crowds, easy on the eyeballs, great orator.
- And so it is because of the poet or the orator that we have the stories of the heroes passed down to us.
- And so maybe technically as a president, they wouldn't rate him maybe anywhere near the top, but he was a great orator.
- You know, he was an orator and, and then just things like his, his body language, his tone of voice, his facial expressions.
- And, and when we think of Doctor King as a great orator saying I have a dream and we leave him two-dimensional, then I think we miss a master strategist.
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He will grow into a great orator.
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And Luegas was a terrific orator, a tremendous campaigner.
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His father was the same... great orator, but...
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I am writing to the great orator, Mr Henry Hunt...
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And he was a poet, an orator himself, a philosopher, and so on.
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Every great orator is a great listener.
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Of course, Vargas Llosa, as speaker, orator, and TV presenter, also has a major reputation.
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And, and when we think of Doctor King as a great orator saying I have a dream and we leave him two-dimensional, then I think we miss a master strategist.
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Tim's quite an orator.
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In the past, we adored the great orators who would read a carefully scripted speech.
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Synonyms
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2.1
A person who gives a talk to an audience
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3.7
A main speaker at a conference who gives the most important talk
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3.2
A person who gives items or announces people at a ceremony
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3.0
A person who gives speeches to an audience in public
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8.9
A person who gives speeches that try to convince people
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4.4
A person who gives a speech to an audience
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5.6
A person who gives the main speech at a conference or event
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8.9
A person who talks as if they are always right
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8.8
A person who speaks or trains people to speak clearly in public
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9.9
A person who gives speeches and writes to persuade people, especially in ancient Greece and Rome
A person who speaks to an audience
A person who gives a formal speech to an audience
A person who gives long formal talks in a proud, showy way
A person who speaks or recites to an audience in a formal, dramatic way
A person who speaks or performs aloud in public
A person who praises someone in a public speech
A person who gives a speech praising someone at a funeral
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Etymology
Orator The word orator comes from the Latin verb orare, which means 'to speak' or 'to pray' and shares the root with the familiar word oral. So an orator is someone who speaks well in front of people.