| Main Entry: | speaker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talker |
Synonyms: |
after-dinner speaker, announcer, elocutionist, keynoter, lecturer, mouthpiece, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker, spokesperson |
| Main Entry: | advocate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person supporting an idea or cause publicly |
Synonyms: |
apostle, attorney, backer, campaigner, champion, counsel, defender, exponent, expounder, lawyer, pleader, promoter, proponent, proposer, speaker, spokesperson, supporter, upholder |
Antonyms: |
antagonist, assailant, enemy, opposition, protestor |
| Main Entry: | chairperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge of proceedings |
Synonyms: |
administrator, captain, chair, director, introducer, leader, moderator, monitor, president, presider, principal, prolocutor, speaker, spokesperson, symposiarch |
| Main Entry: | mouthpiece |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spokesperson |
Synonyms: |
PR person, agent, delegate, representative, speaker, spokesman, spokeswoman |
| Main Entry: | politician |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person pursuing or occupying elective office |
Synonyms: |
baby-kisser, boss, chieftain, congressperson, democrat, grandstander, handshaker, lawmaker, leader, legislator, member of Congress, member of parliament, office seeker, officeholder, orator, partisan, party member, president, public servant, republican, senator, speaker, statesperson, whistle-stopper |
| Main Entry: | spokesperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who communicates for another |
Synonyms: |
agent, champion, delegate, deputy, mediator, mouth, mouthpiece, prolocutor, prophet, protagonist, representative, speaker, stand-in, substitute, talker |
| Main Entry: | interlocutor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversationalist |
Synonyms: |
dialogist, interrogator, interviewer, questioner, speaker, talker |
| Main Entry: | interpreter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | translator |
Synonyms: |
analyst, annotator, artist, biographer, commentator, critic, decoder, delegate, editor, exegete, explicator, exponent, expositor, glossographer, guide, linguist, paraphraser, philosopher, professor, reviewer, scholar, speaker, spokesperson, writer |
| Notes: | an interpreter converts speech to another language and a translator converts writing to another language |
| Main Entry: | chairman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority |
Synonyms: |
administrator, captain, chair, chairperson, chairwoman, director, introducer, leader, moderator, monitor, president, presider, principal, prolocutor, speaker, spokesman, toastmaster |
| Main Entry: | spokesman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communicator |
Synonyms: |
agent, champion, delegate, deputy, mediator, mouth, mouthpiece, prolocutor, prophet, protagonist, representative, speaker, spokesperson, spokeswoman, substitute, talker |