orator

Noun
  1. A person who delivers a speech or oration (synset 110400371)
    is a type of: speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
    subtypes:
    • eulogist, panegyrist - an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics
    • elocutionist - a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery
    • haranguer - a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech
    • spellbinder - an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
    • tub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
    specific instances:
    • burke, edmund burke - British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
    • cicero, marcus tullius cicero, tully - a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)
    • demosthenes - Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC)
    • henry, patrick henry - a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
    • isocrates - Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC)
    same as: public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker

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