ORATORY
\ˈɒɹətəɹˌi], \ˈɒɹətəɹˌi], \ˈɒ_ɹ_ə_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of ORATORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
By Princeton University
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addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
By Oddity Software
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The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
By Noah Webster.
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The art of speaking well in public; eloquence or skill in public speaking: a small chapel, especially one for private devotion.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The art of speaking well, or so as to please and persuade, esp. publicly: the exercise of eloquence: an apartment or building for private worship.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
