VENTRILOQUIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ventriloquist mean? 

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

1. a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTRILOQUIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

performer; performing artist (an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience)

Derivation:

ventriloquism; ventriloquy (the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy))

 Context examples 

"Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"When I grew up I became a ventriloquist, and at that I was very well trained by a great master. I can imitate any kind of a bird or beast."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)