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单词 orate
释义

orate

/ˈɔːreɪt / /ɒˈreɪt /
verb [no object]
Make a speech, especially pompously or at length: Hamlet thinks, speaks, orates, and acts [with direct speech]: ‘Lend me your ears,’ Fred orated...
  • Sticking to his set speech he orated on governance and standards.
  • Most statues of King have him marching or holding his hand up and orating.
  • And Adams, who the world likes, is there, orating, in the middle of what the world certainly does not like.

Synonyms

declaim, make a speech, hold forth, speak, discourse, pontificate, preach, sermonize, sound off, spout off
informal spiel, speechify, mouth off
rare perorate

Origin

Early 17th century: back-formation from oration.

Rhymes

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