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Meanings of oration in English

Russian
речь
Portuguese
discurso
Spanish
discurso
Catalan
discurs
Wikidata

Address delivered to an audience.

        Related terms
        речь
        Russian
        ораторское искусство
        Portuguese
        oratória
        Spanish
        oratoria
        Catalan
        oratòria
        Wikidata

        Process and act of speaking or giving a lecture to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain a listening audience.

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              ораторское искусство
              Usage of oration in English
              1
              The banking plan oration stamps was put into effect late in January.
              The new yorker
              2
              Hilaro Frosticos resented this oration, and in short a general riot commenced.
              The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
              3
              But in the later oration there is a greater finish and smoothness.
              Daniel Webster
              4
              Gerry Adams was right in his graveside oration at Derry City Cemetery.
              The Irish Times
              5
              But it was the oration of the Pope that was most important.
              Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
              6
              This passage was uttered with more force than any in the oration.
              From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
              7
              Æschines closes his very able and brilliant oration with the following words:
              Mosaics of Grecian History
              8
              The tears in the baron's eyes expressed more than a long oration.
              The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
              9
              This simple and affecting decoration would have been a fit funeral oration.
              Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
              10
              So I returned to my village and made oration to the men.
              Children of the Frost
              11
              He delivered his carefully prepared oration in a voice that never faltered.
              The Red Planet
              12
              When Verinder begins in this style an oration is never far distant.
              From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
              13
              Which when it was granted, he began his oration in this sort.
              The Golden Asse
              14
              The soldier-statesman of Greece, in his funeral oration, was addressing an army.
              Woman and the Republic / A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement...
              15
              Here the professor launched into a second oration, longer than the first.
              Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
              16
              This day for special reasons the valedictory poem and oration were performed.
              A Collection of College Words and Customs
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              Translations for oration
              Oration through the time
              Oration across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common