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interlocutor
| interlocutory
| interlocutory injunction
| interlocutrice
| interlope
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interlocutor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun interlocutor has 2 senses
- interlocutor(n = noun.person) middleman - the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk; Array is a member of minstrel show
- interlocutor(n = noun.person) conversational partner - a person who takes part in a conversation; Array is a kind of conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer
is a kind of minstrel
CIDE DICTIONARY
interlocutor, n. [Cf. F. interlocuteur.].
- One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- An interlocutory judgment or sentence. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
interlocutor, n. (fem. interlocutrix) a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
Derivative
interlocution n.
Etymology
mod.L f. L interloqui interlocut- interrupt in speaking (as INTER-, loqui speak)
ROGET THESAURUS
interlocutor
Speech
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.Conversation
N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.
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