rhetorician (redirected from rhetoricians)

rhet·o·ri·cian  (rt-rshn)

n.

1. An expert in or teacher of rhetoric.

2. An eloquent speaker or writer.

3. A person given to verbal extravagance.

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rhetorician

1. a teacher of rhetoric.
2. one skilled in the art of rhetoric.
3. a speaker who overuses rhetorical devices, especially a bombastic or overelaborate orator.

See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

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rhetorician - a person who delivers a speech or oration orator, public speaker, speechifier, speechmaker eulogist, panegyrist - an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics elocutionist - a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery haranguer - a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" spellbinder - an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound tub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker