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oratour

oratour is the obsolete form 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.

Forms of oratour

pluraloratours

Questions about oratour

What is oratour the obsolete form of?
Oratour is the obsolete form of orator.

Words near oratour in the dictionary

  1. oratorlike
  2. orators
  3. oratorship
  4. oratorships
  5. oratory
  6. oratour
  7. oratours
  8. oratress
  9. oratresses
  10. oratrices
  11. oratrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oratour (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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