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Definition of rhetorician noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rhetorician

noun

/ˌretəˈrɪʃn/

/ˌretəˈrɪʃn/

(specialist)

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a person who shows skill in the art of formal rhetoric
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French rethoricien, from rhetorique, via Latin from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of rhetoric’, from rhētōr ‘rhetor’.

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