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ventriloquist

UK/vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/

ventriloquist noun: a person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.

Noun

ventriloquist (plural ventriloquists)

  1. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
    • Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.1871, Benjamin Jowett, The Sophist, translation of original by Plato
    • "Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […]"1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Chapter 15”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

ventriloquist meaning in Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic

ventriloquist in Kannada

ಉಲಿಮಾಟಗಾರ, ಧ್ವನಿಯನ್ನು ಅನುಕರಿಸುವವ, ಧ್ವನಿಗಾರುಡಿಗ

ventriloquist in Tagalog

a person who practices ventriloquism
bentrilokwo

ventriloquist in Arabic

a person who practices ventriloquism
مُتَكَلِّم مِنْ بَطْنِه mutakallim min baṭnih

Synonyms of ventriloquist

Forms of ventriloquist

pluralventriloquists

Origin of ventriloquist

From ventriloquy + -ist.

Words formed from ventriloquist

Words that rhyme with ventriloquist

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Questions about ventriloquist

What does ventriloquist mean?
Ventriloquist means a person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
What is ventriloquist in Kannada?
Ventriloquist in Kannada is ಉಲಿಮಾಟಗಾರ, ಧ್ವನಿಯನ್ನು ಅನುಕರಿಸುವವ, ಧ್ವನಿಗಾರುಡಿಗ. See Ventriloquist meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is ventriloquist?
Ventriloquist is a noun.
How do you pronounce ventriloquist?
Ventriloquist is pronounced /vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/ (UK).
What is the plural of ventriloquist?
The plural of ventriloquist is ventriloquists.

Words near ventriloquist in the dictionary

  1. ventriloquised
  2. ventriloquises
  3. ventriloquising
  4. ventriloquism
  5. ventriloquisms
  6. ventriloquist
  7. ventriloquistic
  8. ventriloquistical
  9. ventriloquistically
  10. ventriloquists
  11. ventriloquize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ventriloquist (page history and authors); ventriloquist (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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