Library / English Dictionary

ORATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of oratory

Example:

he delivered an oration on the decline of family values

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("oration" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Meronyms (parts of "oration"):

peroration ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oration"):

peroration (a flowery and highly rhetorical oration)

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