rhetor

American  

[ree-ter, ret-er] / ˈri tər, ˈrɛt ər /

noun

1. a master or teacher of rhetoric.

2. an orator.

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rhetor British  

/ ˈriːtə /

noun

1. a teacher of rhetoric

2. (in ancient Greece) an orator

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Etymology

Origin of rhetor

1325–75; < Latin rhētor < Greek rhḗtōr; replacing Middle English rethor < Medieval Latin, Latin, as above

Example Sentences

Hitler may be the most famous example of a German rhetor who engaged in this kind of demagoguery, but he didn’t invent it.

From Salon

Rhetor′ical, pertaining to rhetoric: oratorical.—adv.

From Project Gutenberg

Or are they philosophers, at your choice, Plato or Aristotle or Zeno or Epicurus, once presiding over the rolls of poetry and science in some noble's or some rhetor's library?

From Project Gutenberg

To account for this difficulty some critics have supposed, that the anonymous author of the Rhetor. ad Herennium was a rhetorician, whose lectures Cicero had attended, and had inserted in his own work notes taken by him from these prelections, before they were edited by their author354.

From Project Gutenberg

Who the anonymous author of the Rhetor. ad Herennium actually was, has been the subject of much learned controversy, and the point remains still undetermined.

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