• n. 演說者；演講者；雄辯家；原告

來自拉丁語orare演講，演說，詞源同oral,oration.

orator

orator: [14] Orator is one of a small family of English words that go back to the Latin verb ōrāre ‘speak’. Others include oracle [14], oration [14] (whence, by back-formation, orate [16]), and oratory ‘public speaking’ [16]. And besides these, there is a special subset of words that depend on a later, extended sense of ōrāre, ‘pray’: adore [15] (etymologically ‘pray to’), inexorable, oratory ‘small chapel’ [14] (whose Italian form has given English oratorio [18]), and the now archaic orison ‘prayer’ [12] (etymologically the same word as oration).
=> adore, inexorable, oracle, orison

orator (n.)

late 14c., "one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur), from Latin orator "speaker," from orare "to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray, plead," from PIE root *or- "to pronounce a ritual formula" (cognates: Sanskrit aryanti "they praise," Homeric Greek are, Attic ara "prayer," Hittite ariya- "to ask the oracle," aruwai- "to revere, worship"). Meaning "public speaker" is attested from early 15c.

1. Lenin was the great orator of the Russian Revolution.

列寧是俄國革命時期偉大的演說家。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a fine political orator

優(yōu)秀的政治演說家

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.

他能言善辯,勝過最好的演說家.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. He excels as an orator.

他是一個出色的演說家.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The orator gestured vigorously while speaking.

這位演講者講話時用力地做手勢.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》