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orators

orators is the plural of orator.

Meaning of orator

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...
  3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
  4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

Phrases with orators

Questions about orators

What is orators the plural of?
Orators is the plural of orator.

Words near orators in the dictionary

  1. oratorize
  2. oratorized
  3. oratorizes
  4. oratorizing
  5. oratorlike
  6. orators
  7. oratorship
  8. oratorships
  9. oratory
  10. oratour
  11. oratours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orators (page history and authors); orator (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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