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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An expert or student of rhetoric.

   "Themistocles was a rhetorician."

2. 2
   a person who delivers a speech or oration wordnet
3. 3
   An orator or eloquent public speaker.

Synonyms

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oratorcicerodemostheneselocutionisteuphuistfine writer

Example

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"Themistocles was a rhetorician."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

public speaker

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