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Elocutionist

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Someone who practices or teaches elocution.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A person versed in the art of elocution; one who teaches or writes upon elocution, or who gives public elocutionary readings or exercises.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery

Word Usage

"Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

speechmaker speechifier public speaker orator rhetorician

Synonym

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reader speaker

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