public speaker

Noun

Meaning

a person who delivers a speech or oration

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

orator rhetorician speechmaker speechifier barker cicero speaker lecturer lector reader bore mouthpiece preacher announcer conversationalist

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Antonyms

spectator audience pupil listener figurehead student

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Hypernyms

speaker talker utterer verbalizer verbaliser

Hyponyms

elocutionist eulogist panegyrist haranguer spellbinder tub-thumper

Related terms

public speaking

Examples

I'm a horrible public speaker. Bill Condon

I am not a public speaker and never will be. Heath Ledger

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible. Drew Houston

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters. Robbie Williams

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. Tony Campolo

Although Coolidge was known to be a skilled and effective public speaker, in private he was a man of few words and was commonly referred to as "Silent Cal". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

public society public song public space public speaking public sphere pedagogy public spirit