orator (noun)
1orator — ► NOUN ▪ a proficient public speaker. DERIVATIVES oratorial adjective …
2orator — noun a proficient public speaker. ↘(also public orator) an official speaking for a university on ceremonial occasions. Derivatives oratorial adjective Origin ME: from Anglo Norman Fr. oratour, from L. orator speaker, pleader …
3orator — noun Patrick Henry, the great orator Syn: speaker, public speaker, speech maker, lecturer, declaimer, rhetorician, rhetor …
4orator — noun Date: 15th century 1. one who delivers an oration 2. one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker …
5orator — noun /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/ a) Someone who orates or delivers an oration. b) A skilled and eloquent public speaker …
6orator — noun (C) someone who makes speeches and is good at persuading people …
7orator — UK [ˈɒrətə(r)] / US [ˈɔrətər] noun [countable] Word forms orator : singular orator plural orators someone who makes speeches in public, especially someone who is good at doing this …
8orator — /ˈɒrətə / (say oruhtuh) noun someone who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence. {Latin: speaker, supplicant; replacing Middle English oratour, from Anglo French} –oratress /ˈɒrətrəs/ (say oruhtruhs), oratrix… …
9orator — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. speaker, lecturer, declaimer, pleader; see speaker 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. speaker, lecturer, preacher, reciter, declaimer, sermonizer, pontificator, rhetorician, elocutionist. One who can make men see with… …
10orator — or|a|tor [ ɔrətər ] noun count someone who makes speeches in public, especially someone who is good at doing this …