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Ventriloquist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One, especially an entertainer, who is adept at ventriloquism.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who practises or is skilled in ventriloquism; one who speaks in such a manner that his voice appears to come from some distant place or other quarter.

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

n. a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

Word Usage

"It comes from two words - venter, which means tummy, and loqui, which means to speak - in other words a ventriloquist was supposed to be a man who could speak by using his tummy in some way."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

performer performing artist

Form

ventriloquistic

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

biloquist

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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