Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rhetorician

/ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables: rhetori-cian
IPA: /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An expert or student of rhetoric.

noun

An orator or eloquent public speaker.

Example Sentences

"Themistocles was a rhetorician."
"As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings."
"In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics."

Etymology

From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric + -ian.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: rethoricien, retoricien

Inflected Forms

rhetoricians (plural) rhetoritian (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

rhetor rhetoric

Synonyms

orator speechmaker public speaker speechifier

Rhymes With

position addition competition commission mission condition edition definition opposition permission tradition recognition

Questions

How do you pronounce rhetorician?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/.
What does rhetorician mean?: An expert or student of rhetoric.
Where does rhetorician come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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