orator's
Public speaker's possession
Orator's is the possessive form of orator, a person skilled in formal public speaking.
The form indicates belonging or association: the orator's voice carried across the hall, an orator's gift for persuasion.
It can also form the contracted "orator is": The orator's speaking at noon.
Gathering for a cause
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- platformRaised flat structure
- electorateEligible voting body
constituents · slogan · soundbite · applause · ovation · crowd · microphone · broadcast
Raised platform for speakers
- lecternTilted stand for texts
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- speechOral communication ability
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
delivery · persuasion · audience · address · declamation · elocution · flourish · cadence
Ancient Rome's greatest speaker
- DemosthenesClassical Athenian statesman-orator
- forumGathering place for discourse
- agoraGreek civic square
- tribuneSpeaker's raised platform
toga · rostrum · Senate · assembly · Pericles · Aristotle · sophist · logos
rally
Gathering for a cause
electorate · constituents · slogan · soundbite · applause · ovation · crowd · microphone · broadcast · teleprompter
podium
Raised platform for speakers
rhetoric · delivery · persuasion · audience · address · declamation · elocution · flourish · cadence · peroration
Cicero
Ancient Rome's greatest speaker
- DemosthenesClassical Athenian statesman-orator
- forumGathering place for discourse
- agoraGreek civic square
tribune · toga · rostrum · Senate · assembly · Pericles · Aristotle · sophist · logos · pathos
preparation
Arranging things in advance
- memorizationCommitting information to recall
- notesBrief written records
- outlineSummary of key elements
rehearsal · practice · voice · breathing · stance · composure · confidence · charisma · gravitas · presence
orator'saudience's
Of those attending
listener's · hearer's · spectator's · congregation's · crowd's
- famous oratorsAcclaimed public speakers
- epideictic oratoryRhetoric of praise/blame
- oratory skillsAbility to speak persuasively
- political oratoryPublic persuasion by officials
- public oratorsThose who speak publicly