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Meanings of oration in English
Address delivered to an audience.
Related terms
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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The banking plan oration stamps was put into effect late in January.
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Hilaro Frosticos resented this oration, and in short a general riot commenced.
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But in the later oration there is a greater finish and smoothness.
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Gerry Adams was right in his graveside oration at Derry City Cemetery.
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But it was the oration of the Pope that was most important.
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This passage was uttered with more force than any in the oration.
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Æschines closes his very able and brilliant oration with the following words:
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The tears in the baron's eyes expressed more than a long oration.
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This simple and affecting decoration would have been a fit funeral oration.
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So I returned to my village and made oration to the men.
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He delivered his carefully prepared oration in a voice that never faltered.
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When Verinder begins in this style an oration is never far distant.
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Which when it was granted, he began his oration in this sort.
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The soldier-statesman of Greece, in his funeral oration, was addressing an army.
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Here the professor launched into a second oration, longer than the first.
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This day for special reasons the valedictory poem and oration were performed.
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Translations for oration
Russian
Oration through the time
Oration across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common