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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: articulator

1	n	a movable speech organ
2	n	someone who pronounces words

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: articulator

n a movable speech organ

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla
the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth; clapper, glossa, lingua, tongue
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity; lip
either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking; overlip
the upper lip; underlip
the lower lip; lantern jaw
a long thin lower jaw

Type of:: organ of speech, speech organ, vocal organ
any of the organs involved in speech production

n someone who pronounces words

Examples:: show 8 examples...; hide 8 examples...; Aesop
Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC); Edmund Burke
British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797); Marcus Tullius Cicero
a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC); Demosthenes
Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC); Patrick Henry
a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799); Isocrates
Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC); Helen Adams Keller
United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968); Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen
German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)

Types:: show 32 types...; hide 32 types...; speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); subvocaliser, subvocalizer
someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds; alliterator
a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration; caller, caller-up, phoner, telephoner
the person initiating a telephone call; babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter
an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker; conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer
someone skilled at conversation; dictator
a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine; drawler
someone who speaks with a drawl; driveller, jabberer
someone whose talk is trivial drivel; ejaculator
a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation; growler
a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl; asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner
someone who asks a question; lecturer
someone who lectures professionally; lisper
a speaker who lisps; mentioner
a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally; motormouth
someone who talks incessantly; mumbler, murmurer, mutterer
a person who speaks softly and indistinctly; narrator, storyteller, teller
someone who tells a story; orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker
a person who delivers a speech or oration; prattler
someone who speaks in a childish way; ranter, raver
someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner; reciter
someone who recites from memory; native speaker
a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood; stammerer, stutterer
someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions; stentor
a speaker with an unusually loud voice; talking head
a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen; venter
a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance; vociferator
a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest); voicer
a speaker who voices an opinion; wailer
a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries; whisperer
one who speaks in a whisper; informant, witness, witnesser
someone who sees an event and reports what happened

Type of:: communicator
a person who communicates with others

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