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    RHETORICIAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who delivers a speech or orationplay

    Synonyms:

    orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

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

    speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

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

    eulogist; panegyrist (an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics)

    elocutionist (a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery)

    haranguer (a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech)

    spellbinder (an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound)

    tub-thumper (a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Burke; Edmund Burke (British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797))

    Cicero; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Tully (a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC))

    Demosthenes (Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC))

    Henry; Patrick Henry (a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799))

    Isocrates (Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC))

    Derivation:

    rhetoric (study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking))

    rhetoric (using language effectively to please or persuade)

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