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ORATORY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

Example:

he loved the sound of his own oratory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("oratory" is a kind of...):

address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oratory"):

keynote address; keynote speech (a speech setting forth the keynote)

nominating address; nominating speech; nomination (an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election)

oration (an instance of oratory)

declamation (vehement oratory)

epideictic oratory (a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people)

stump speech (political oratory)

salutatory; salutatory address; salutatory oration (an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises))

valediction; valedictory; valedictory address; valedictory oration (a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class))

Derivation:

oratorical (characteristic of an orator or oratory)

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