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dissertator

dissertator noun: someone who writes or performs a dissertation or speech.

Noun

dissertator (plural dissertators)

  1. Someone who writes or performs a dissertation or speech.
    • Our dissertator learnedly argues1698, Charles Boyle Orrery, Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the fables of Æsop, examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq
    • The dissertators usually begin with famous words, which symbolize the mainstream of viewpoints in their specific field. The words and sentences, as in these, could even be used to cover the whole of discourse in the field.2018, Kiyoung Kim, Piece to Text on the Monument and One

Forms of dissertator

pluraldissertators

Origin of dissertator

Latin: compare French dissertateur.

Questions about dissertator

What does dissertator mean?
Dissertator means someone who writes or performs a dissertation or speech.
What part of speech is dissertator?
Dissertator is a noun.
What is the plural of dissertator?
The plural of dissertator is dissertators.

Words near dissertator in the dictionary

  1. dissertationese
  2. dissertationist
  3. dissertationists
  4. dissertations
  5. dissertative
  6. dissertator
  7. dissertators
  8. disserted
  9. Disserth
  10. Disserth and Trecoed
  11. disserting

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