Oration
An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.
To deliver an oration.
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Oration Translations
oration in German is Rede
oration in Italian is orazione
oration in Latin is oratio
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