interlocutor
noun
a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
interlocutors
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pluralof interlocutor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Enter Sleek, the crabby tabby cat, and the Rev. Vicarious Cronch, the biblically recondite goat: interlocutors, speaking beasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Dialogue with Putin should take place without "too many interlocutors, with a given mandate", he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
What Homan lacks in eloquence—he frequently slurs his words and can be hard to understand—he makes up for with a savant’s command of names and numbers and a willingness to shout down interlocutors.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025
His European interlocutors nodded but without much evident enthusiasm.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
That’s how we pick up accents— sometimes to the extent that our interlocutors think they’re being mocked—and how we lose them.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
