orator

Other forms of orator

plural

orators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orator

What does orator mean?

orator means "a person who delivers a speech or oration".

How many syllables are in orator?

orator has 3 syllables: o-ra-tor. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹətɚ/.

What is another word for orator?

Close synonyms include speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orator a common word?

orator is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.