| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talker |
| Synonyms: | after-dinner speaker, announcer, elocutionist, keynoter, lecturer, mouthpiece, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker, spokesperson |
| Main Entry: | chairperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge of proceedings |
| Synonyms: | administrator, captain, chair, director, introducer, leader, moderator, monitor, president, presider, principal, prolocutor, speaker, spokesperson, symposiarch |
| Main Entry: | mouthpiece |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spokesperson |
| Synonyms: | PR person, agent, delegate, representative, speaker, spokesman, spokeswoman |
| Main Entry: | politician |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person pursuing or occupying elective office |
| Synonyms: | baby-kisser, boss, chieftain, congressperson, democrat, grandstander, handshaker, lawmaker, leader, legislator, member of Congress, member of parliament, office seeker, officeholder, orator, partisan, party member, president, public servant, republican, senator, speaker, statesperson, whistle-stopper |
| Main Entry: | spokesperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who communicates for another |
| Synonyms: | agent, champion, delegate, deputy, mediator, mouth, mouthpiece, prolocutor, prophet, protagonist, representative, speaker, stand-in, substitute, talker |
| Main Entry: | lecturer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teacher |
| Synonyms: | docent, instructor, lector, professor, reader, speaker |
| Main Entry: | interlocutor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversationalist |
| Synonyms: | dialogist, interrogator, interviewer, questioner, speaker, talker |
| Main Entry: | interpreter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | translator |
| Synonyms: | analyst, annotator, artist, biographer, commentator, critic, decoder, delegate, editor, exegete, explicator, exponent, expositor, glossographer, guide, linguist, paraphraser, philosopher, professor, reviewer, scholar, speaker, spokesperson, writer |
| Notes: | an interpreter converts speech to another language and a translator converts writing to another language |
| Main Entry: | chairman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority |
| Synonyms: | administrator, captain, chair, chairperson, chairwoman, director, introducer, leader, moderator, monitor, president, presider, principal, prolocutor, speaker, spokesman, toastmaster |