Synonyms for orate
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : aw-reyt, oh-reyt, awr-eyt, ohr-eyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈreɪt, oʊˈreɪt, ˈɔr eɪt, ˈoʊr eɪt |
Définition of orate
Origin :- c.1600, "to pray, to plead," from Latin oratus, past participle of orare "speak, pray, plead, speak before a court or assembly" (see orator). The meaning "make a formal speech" emerged c.1860 in American English as a back-formation of oration. Related: Orated; orating.
- verb speak
- We do not all want to sing or all want to orate or all want to paint.
- Extract from : « Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 » by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
- He longed to orate about the woman who had his heart; yet she was the one topic that must be shirked.
- Extract from : « Zuleika Dobson » by Max Beerbohm
- Then the lawyer with the black beard arose and began to orate.
- Extract from : « Csar or Nothing » by Po Baroja Baroja
- Billy, he opened his mouth and he squared himself away to orate some.
- Extract from : « Danny's Own Story » by Don Marquis
- Odd how Silomio's colleagues in late Ministry find business elsewhere when he rises to orate.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 16, 1895 » by Various
- Do you remember how you always used to let me orate to you when I had anything on hand for the rhetoricals?
- Extract from : « Wheat and Huckleberries » by Charlotte Marion (White) Vaile
- Thornberry seemed ready to orate for an hour, but Bennington stopped him with a gesture.
- Extract from : « Take the Reason Prisoner » by John Joseph McGuire
- Anyway, he got ten days, and he was due in three days to orate for Siwash against the whole Northwest.
- Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch
- He was a good talker; he spoke many languages; he could orate with fluency and skilful guile.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
- Elect′orate, the dignity or the territory of an elector: the body of electors; Elect′orship.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
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