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C2 Topic:Communication
US /dɪˈkleɪmər/ UK /dɪˈkleɪmə/
noun Freq #830559

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a person who delivers a forceful, theatrical, or rhetorical speech

    The religious declaimer denounced luxury from the pulpit.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a person who delivers a... oratorharanguerrhetorician
Word family
Forms declaimers
Related forms declaimdeclamation

Etymology

Formed from declaim + -er. Declaim comes through French and Latin declamare, 'to practise public speaking or speak rhetorically.'

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