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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 delivery
Familiarity information: ELOCUTIONIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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