Usually means: Art of effective persuasive communication.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhetoric: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rhetoric: Merriam-Webster
  3. rhetoric: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rhetoric: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rhetoric: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rhetoric: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rhetoric, rhetoric: Wordnik
  8. rhetoric: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rhetoric: Wiktionary
  10. rhetoric: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rhetoric: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rhetoric: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rhetoric, rhetoric: Dictionary.com
  14. rhetoric: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rhetoric: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rhetoric (Aristotle), Rhetoric, The Rhetoric: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rhetoric: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rhetoric: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rhetoric: Rhymezone
  20. rhetoric: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rhetoric: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rhetoric: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rhetoric: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rhetoric: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RHETORIC: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhetoric: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhetoric: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. rhetoric: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhetoric: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rhetorics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Synonym of rhetorical.
noun:  The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
noun:  Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

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