Word

oratory, n.
(oratories)

addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
<noun.communication>

oratory

sample sentences

"he loved the sound of his own oratory"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

speech, address

hyponym

keynote speech, keynote address nominating speech, nominating address, nomination oration declamation epideictic oratory stump speech salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory