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ELOCUTIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elocutionist mean? 

ELOCUTIONIST (noun)
  The noun ELOCUTIONIST has 1 sense:

1. a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and deliveryplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ELOCUTIONIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("elocutionist" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

elocution (an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture)


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