orator
pronunciation
How to pronounce orator in British English:
UK [ˈɒrətə(r)]
How to pronounce orator in American English:
US [ˈɔːrətər]
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- Noun:
- a person who delivers a speech or oration
Word Origin
- orator
- orator: [14] Orator is one of a small family of English words that go back to the Latin verb ōrāre ‘speak’. Others include oracle [14], oration [14] (whence, by back-formation, orate [16]), and oratory ‘public speaking’ [16]. And besides these, there is a special subset of words that depend on a later, extended sense of ōrāre, ‘pray’: adore [15] (etymologically ‘pray to’), inexorable, oratory ‘small chapel’ [14] (whose Italian form has given English oratorio [18]), and the now archaic orison ‘prayer’ [12] (etymologically the same word as oration).=> adore, inexorable, oracle, orison
- orator (n.)
- late 14c., "one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur), from Latin orator "speaker," from orare "to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray, plead," from PIE root *or- "to pronounce a ritual formula" (cognates: Sanskrit aryanti "they praise," Homeric Greek are, Attic ara "prayer," Hittite ariya- "to ask the oracle," aruwai- "to revere, worship"). Meaning "public speaker" is attested from early 15c.
Example
- 1. One of yung wing 's nephews , yung leang , a skilled orator at hartford high , had just enrolled in college when the exchange program was abruptly halted .
- 2. But caution prevailed over the orator 's usual magic .
- 3. The tongue tied plumber became a powerful orator .
- 4. The orator delivered his speech effectively .
- 5. The orator had a splendid delivery .