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orator

/ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/

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New York City/ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/

orator noun: someone who orates or delivers an oration.

Noun

orator (plural orators)

  1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
  2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
    • Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
      Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
      Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
      Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
      Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • […] when it becomes obvious that I have not the slightest skill as a speaker – unless, of course, by skilful speaker they mean one who speaks the truth. If that is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator, though not after their pattern.1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 19
  3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
  4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

orator meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

orator in Hindi

someone who orates or delivers an oration
वक्ता vaktā

orator in Tamil

பேச்சாளர், உரைஞர், பொழிவாளர்

orator in Urdu

someone who orates or delivers an oration
خَطِیب xatīb

orator in Malayalam

വാഗ്മി, പ്രാസംഗികൻ
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orator in Kannada
ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಭಾಷಣಕಾರ, ಮಾತುಗಾರ, ನುಡಿಕಾರ, ನುಡಿಗಾರ
orator in Arabic
خَطِيب ḵaṭīb, خَطِيبَة ḵaṭība
orator in Persian
خطیب xatib, ناطق nâteq, سخنران soxanrân

Examples of orator in a sentence

  • A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.
  • The busy orator and mother of two couldn't get around to her unfinished speech.
  • Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

All 19 example sentences with orator

Synonyms of orator

Forms of orator

pluralorators
alternative form (obsolete)oratour

Plural of orator: orators

Origin of orator

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

Words formed from orator

Questions about orator

What does orator mean?
Orator means someone who orates or delivers an oration.
What is orator in Hindi?
Orator in Hindi is वक्ता (vaktā). See Orator meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is orator?
Orator is a noun.
How do you pronounce orator?
Orator is pronounced /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of orator?
The plural of orator is orators.

Words near orator in the dictionary

  1. orationes rectae
  2. orationing
  3. orations
  4. oratiuncle
  5. oratiuncles
  6. orator
  7. oratoress
  8. oratoresses
  9. oratorial
  10. oratorially
  11. oratorian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: orator (page history and authors); orator (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); orator (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); orator (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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