public speaker


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public speaking

n.
The act, art, or process of making effective speeches before an audience.
public speaker n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.public speaker - a person who delivers a speech or orationpublic speaker - a person who delivers a speech or oration
orator, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker
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
speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
spellbinder - an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
tub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
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Butler is a noted public speaker. He is always asked by the State Committee to go out on stump during campaign.
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But he did it with one of the bursts which have made his fame as a public speaker. She sat, either quite thunderstruck, or quite fascinated--I don't know which--without even making an effort to put his arms back where his arms ought to have been.
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The long-drawn gurgle of the practised public speaker pleased them much.
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She is made to be a public speaker. Much more so than her husband, though he is a typical Englishman, always dull and usually violent.
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