Usually means: Art of effective public speaking.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. oratory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oratory: Merriam-Webster
  3. Oratory, oratory, oratory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oratory, oratory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oratory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oratory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oratory, oratory: Wordnik
  8. oratory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oratory: Wiktionary
  10. oratory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oratory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oratory: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Oratory, oratory: Dictionary.com
  14. oratory (1), oratory (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. oratory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Oratory (disambiguation), Oratory (speech), Oratory (worship), Oratory, The Oratory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Oratory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. oratory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. oratory: Rhymezone
  20. oratory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. oratory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. oratory: FreeDictionary.org
  23. oratory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. oratory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. oratory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oratory (speech), oratory: Legal dictionary

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  1. Oratory (speech), oratory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oratory: Castle Terms
  2. oratory: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oratory: Catholic Encyclopedia

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

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A private chapel or prayer room.
noun:  A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
noun:  (specifically) A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
noun:  The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
noun:  Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of oratory: a church belonging to the Oratory. [A private chapel or prayer room.]

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