speechmaker

American  

[speech-mey-ker] / ˈspitʃˌmeɪ kər /

noun

1. a person who delivers speeches.

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Other Word Forms

• speechmaking noun

Etymology

Origin of speechmaker

First recorded in 1700–10; speech + maker

Example Sentences

She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2020

“Most big speeches start with the politician, the leader, the speechmaker, giving a sense of what they think,” a former Party official, who worked for May at the time, told me.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

It’s as if he can be a sage on deadline, whereas, left more space in which to lose himself, he sounds like a professional speechmaker in a hurry.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2015

Fox, with the most powerful abilities, is looked on simply as a magnificent speechmaker.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various