DEMOSTHENES

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• DEMOSTHENES (noun)
  The noun DEMOSTHENES has 1 sense:

1. Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC)

  Familiarity information: DEMOSTHENES used as a noun is very rare.

• DEMOSTHENES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Athenian (a resident of Athens)

orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Derivation:

Demosthenic (of or relating to Demosthenes or his oratory)

 Context examples 

Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with the grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his friends said.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)