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rhetorician

/ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/

rhetorician noun: an expert or student of rhetoric.

Noun

rhetorician (plural rhetoricians)

  1. An expert or student of rhetoric.
    • Themistocles was a rhetorician.
    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183
  2. An orator or eloquent public speaker.

rhetorician meaning in Bengali

rhetorician in Bengali

অলঙ্কারশাস্ত্রের একজন বিশেষজ্ঞ, শিক্ষার্থী, একজন বাগ্মী, সুবেক্তা

Forms of rhetorician

pluralrhetoricians
alternative formrhetoritian

Origin of rhetorician

From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric + -ian.

Questions about rhetorician

What does rhetorician mean?
Rhetorician means an expert or student of rhetoric.
What is rhetorician in Bengali?
Rhetorician in Bengali is অলঙ্কারশাস্ত্রের একজন বিশেষজ্ঞ, শিক্ষার্থী, একজন বাগ্মী. See Rhetorician meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rhetorician?
Rhetorician is a noun.
How do you pronounce rhetorician?
Rhetorician is pronounced /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/.
What is the plural of rhetorician?
The plural of rhetorician is rhetoricians.

Words near rhetorician in the dictionary

  1. rhetoricated
  2. rhetoricates
  3. rhetoricating
  4. rhetorication
  5. rhetorications
  6. rhetorician
  7. rhetoricians
  8. rhetoricities
  9. rhetoricity
  10. rhetorick
  11. rhetoricks

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