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n. One who delivers an oration.

n. An eloquent and skilled public speaker.

n. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.

n. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.

n. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.

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n. In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.

n. A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.

n. An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

n. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; a person who pronounces a discourse publicly on some special occasion; a pleader or lawyer.

n. An eloquent public speaker; one who is skilled as a speaker; an eloquent man: as, he writes and reasons well, but is no orator.

n. A spokesman; an advocate; a defender; one who defends by pleading; one who argues in favor of a person or a cause.

n. In law, the plaintiff or petitioner in a bill or information in chancery.

n. An orationer; a petitioner; one who offers a prayer or petition.

n. An officer of English universities: see the quotation.

n. a person who delivers a speech or oration

"It was a performance to daunt a lesser orator from the very attempt."

verbaliser    speaker    talker    verbalizer    utterer   

public orator   

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oratory   

petitioner    speaker    rhetor   

statesman    preacher    historian    novelist    musician    speaker    patriot    physician    poet    actor