[ noun ] a person who delivers a speech or oration <noun.person>
Orator \Or"a*tor\, n. [L., fr. orare to speak, utter. See {Oration}.] 1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
I am no orator, as Brutus is. --Shak.
Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome. --Milton.
2. (Law) (a) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. (b) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. --Burrill.
3. (Eng. Universities) 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}.
He is an excellent orator.
Winston Churchill was an orator.
Even Edward Kennedy, despite the content of what he says, is an orator.
The first major American squabble over a proposal to raise the pay of members of Congress arose in 1816 and it set back the early political career of Daniel Webster, who later was to become a famous orator, senator, and secretary of state.
Adolf Hitler made some good speeches too." In her statement to Jackson, she called him a powerful orator. "Experience is also important in a president and that's the point I was addressing.
The meeting was requested by TerreBlanche, a charismatic orator who often ends his speeches with Hitler-style salutes.
Trotsky was feared by his rivals for his skills as an orator and organizer, his popularity among youth and his support in the Red Army.
It takes a sturdy gavel to silence a chamber full of legislators whose back-slapping gossip and guffaws are stealing an orator's thunder, but Beaton says his 14-inch gavels of American sugar maple are equal to the task.