rhetorician

noun
/ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric + -ian.

  1. derived from retoricien
  2. inherited from rethoricien

Definitions

  1. An expert or student of rhetoric.

    • Themistocles was a rhetorician.
    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
    • In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
  2. An orator or eloquent public speaker.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA