oratory

1. Addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) (synset 107255865)
   "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
   is a type of: address, speech - the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
   subtypes:

   • keynote address, keynote speech - a speech setting forth the keynote
   • nominating address, nominating speech, nomination - an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
   • oration - an instance of oratory
   • declamation - vehement oratory
   • epideictic oratory - a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people
   • stump speech - political oratory
   • salutatory, salutatory address, salutatory oration - an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises)
   • valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration - a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)

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