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orator


noun

  1. a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
  2. Law. a plaintiff in a case in a court of equity.

noun

  1. a public speaker, esp one versed in rhetoric
  2. a person given to lengthy or pompous speeches
  3. obsolete the claimant in a cause of action in chancery

n.late 14c., “one who pleads or argues for a cause,” from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur), from Latin orator “speaker,” from orare “to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray, plead,” from PIE root *or- “to pronounce a ritual formula” (cf. Sanskrit aryanti “they praise,” Homeric Greek are, Attic ara “prayer,” Hittite ariya- “to ask the oracle,” aruwai- “to revere, worship”). Meaning “public speaker” is attested from early 15c.

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