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# rhetorician

«rhetorician» in Mova's school dictionary: **skilled at speaking or writing in a grand, persuasive…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural rhetoricians)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who is skilled at speaking or writing in a grand, persuasive way; an expert in rhetoric. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhetorician/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old writing, a teacher of fine speaking, often told as a clever but wordy person

### examples

- The rhetorician gave a long speech to the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhetorician/#x1)
- The clever rhetorician won every argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhetorician/#x2)
- A rhetorician must know how to persuade people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhetorician/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rhetorician» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhetorician/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.