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orator

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
orator/ˈɒrətə(r)/

▶noun a proficient public speaker.

■ (also public orator) an official speaking for a university on ceremonial occasions.

– derivatives
oratorial adjective.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. oratour, from L. orator ‘speaker, pleader’.

'orator' also found in these Oxford entries:

Ciceronian - demagogue - oratory - rhetor - rostrum

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