English > oratory: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous). |
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| Example | "he loved the sound of his own oratory" |
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| Narrower | declamation | vehement oratory |
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| epideictic oratory | A type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people |
| keynote speech, keynote address | A speech setting forth the keynote |
| nominating speech, nominating address, nomination | An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election |
| oration | An instance of oratory |
| salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory | An opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) |
| stump speech | Political oratory |
| valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory | A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) |
| Broader | address, speech | The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience |
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| Spanish | oración, oratoria |
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| Catalan | oració, oratòria |
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| Adjectives | oratorical | characteristic of an orator or oratory |
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