rhetor
Americannoun
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a master or teacher of rhetoric.
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an orator.
noun
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a teacher of rhetoric
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(in ancient Greece) an orator
Etymology
Origin of rhetor
1325–75; < Latin rhētor < Greek rhḗtōr; replacing Middle English rethor < Medieval Latin, Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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He visited the public baths rarely, only when some rhetor happened there who roused admiration and who was spoken of in the city, or when in the ephebias there were combats of exceptional interest.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
The rhetor Seneca has left us many of these oratorical themes; they discuss stolen children, brigands, and romantic adventures.
From History Of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos
Script., published in 1548, during Barclay's life time, adorns him with the epithets "Scotus, rhetor ac poeta insignis."
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Alexander Barclay
The magical transformation wrought by Roman rule in a century and a half seized the imagination of contemporaries such as the rhetor Aristides.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
To think clearly, to arrange your matter under formal heads, to have each paragraph definitely articulated and each sentence simply and exactly expressed: that was the main lesson of the Greek rhetor.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
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