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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
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)
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