English noun: oratory | |||
1. | oratory (communication) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | ||
Samples | He loved the sound of his own oratory. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | address, speech | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | declamation, epideictic oratory, keynote address, keynote speech, nominating address, nominating speech, nomination, oration, salutatory, salutatory address, salutatory oration, stump speech, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration | ||