ORATORY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he loved the sound of his own oratory
   Hypernyms(s) oratory is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • address (what does address mean?)
   • speech (what does speech mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • keynote speech (what does keynote speech mean?)
   • keynote address (what does keynote address mean?)
   • nominating speech (what does nominating speech mean?)
   • nominating address (what does nominating address mean?)
   • nomination (what does nomination mean?)
   • oration (what does oration mean?)
   • declamation (what does declamation mean?)
   • stump speech (what does stump speech mean?)
   • valediction (what does valediction mean?)
   • valedictory address (what does valedictory address mean?)
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