interlocutor
/ˌɪntəˈlɒkjʊtə
/noun formal
A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.But that's not what my interlocutors, particularly the German ones, really want....
- This is why the current engagement between my interlocutors and myself is particularly valuable.
- All of these narratives unfold partly as dialogues with what seem to be sympathetic but ineffectual interlocutors, perhaps lawyers.
Derivatives
interlocution
/ noun ...- For the last three days I have been listening to recordings of oral interlocutions of such a numbing homogeneity as to leave your correspondent jaded in the extreme.
- David Makinson is reacting to the style of my interlocution, not its content.
- Perhaps we are now in a better position, after our interlocutions with Douglas and Balthasar, to argue this more fully in closing.
Origin
Early 16th century: modern Latin, from Latin interlocut- 'interrupted (by speech)', from the verb interloqui, from inter- 'between' + loqui 'speak'.
Rhymes
- postpalatal
- postpalatine
- postparietal
- post-partisan
- post-partum
- postpartum depression
- post-parturient
- post pattern
- postpectoral
- postperson
- postpetiole
- postpharyngeal
- post-pill
- postpituitary
- post-Pliocene
- post-polio
- post-polio syndrome
- postponable
- postpone
- postponement
- postponer
- postpose
- postposit
- postposited
- postposition