'Rhetorician' definitions:
Definition of 'rhetorician'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier]
Definition of 'Rhetorician'
From: GCIDE
- Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, a. Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rhetorician'
From: GCIDE
- Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, n. [Cf. F. rh['e]toricien.]
- 1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. [1913 Webster]
- The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. --F. W. Robertson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A teacher of rhetoric. [1913 Webster]
- The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rhetorician'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Cicero,
- Demosthenes,
- elocutionist,
- euphuist,
- fine writer,
- Gongorist,
- mannerist,
- Marinist,
- master of style,
- orator,
- pedant,
- phrasemaker,
- phraseman,
- phrasemonger,
- platform orator,
- public speaker,
- rhetor,
- soapbox orator,
- soapboxer,
- spellbinder,
- stump orator,
- stylist,
- teacher of rhetoric,
- William Jennings Bryan,
- Winston Churchill,
- wordspinner