Oration (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An instance of oratory
Example:
he delivered an oration on the decline of family values
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("oration" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))
Meronyms (parts of "oration"):
peroration ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oration"):
peroration (a flowery and highly rhetorical oration)