Ventriloquist

//vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy wordnet

Synonyms

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biloquistbiloquistventriloque

Example

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"Tom is a much better ventriloquist than Mary."

Etymology

From ventriloquy + -ist.

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