oratory
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
he loved the sound of his own oratory
Types & categories
- speech hypernym
- keynote speech hyponym
- nominating speech hyponym
- oration hyponym
- declamation hyponym
- epideictic oratory hyponym
- stump speech hyponym
- salutatory address hyponym
- valediction hyponym
Related & opposite
- oratorical derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | oratorical |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | speech |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | keynote speech |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nominating speech |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | oration |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | declamation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | epideictic oratory |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stump speech |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | salutatory address |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | valediction |