Orator
A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
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Orator Quotations
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
Mike Singletary
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Joshua Reynolds
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
Marsilio Ficino
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
Thomas Starr King
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Maria Edgeworth
Orator Translations
orator in Dutch is redenaar
orator in German is Redner
orator in Italian is oratore
orator in Latin is orator
orator in Spanish is orador
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