| 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: | 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: | delegate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | representative, often governmental |
Synonyms: |
agent, alternate, ambassador, appointee, catchpole, commissioner, consul, deputy, emissary, envoy, factor, front*, legate, member, member of congress, minister, mouthpiece, nominee, people's choice, pinch hitter, plenipotentiary, proxy, regent, rep, replacement, senator, spokesperson, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, vicar, viceroy |
| Notes: | as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in rank a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
| Main Entry: | exponent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who supports, advocates |
Synonyms: |
backer, booster, champion, defender, demonstrator, expositor, expounder, interpreter, partisan, promoter, propagandist, proponent, protagonist, second, seconder, spokesperson, supporter, upholder |
| Main Entry: | proponent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates, supports cause |
Synonyms: |
advocate, backer, champion, defender, enthusiast, exponent, expounder, friend, partisan, patron, protector, second, seconder, spokesperson, subscriber, supporter, upholder, vindicator |
Antonyms: |
enemy, foe, opponent |
| Main Entry: | representative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who acts in the stead of another |
Synonyms: |
agent, assemblyperson, attorney, commissioner, congressperson, councilor, councilperson, counselor, delegate, deputy, lawyer, legislator, member, messenger, proxy, rep, salesperson, senator, spokesperson |
| Main Entry: | ringleader |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leader |
Synonyms: |
agitator, boss, brains, captain, chief, chieftain, commander, general, head, head honcho, inciter, instigator, mastermind, orchestrator, president, ruler, skipper, spokesperson, troublemaker |
| 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: | 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 |