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VENTRILOQUY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ventriloquy mean?
• VENTRILOQUY (noun)
The noun VENTRILOQUY has 1 sense:
1. the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
Familiarity information: VENTRILOQUY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
ventriloquism; ventriloquy
Hypernyms ("ventriloquy" is a kind of...):
art; artistry; prowess (a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)
Derivation:
ventriloquist (a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy)
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