| Pronunciation: | | dub'eytur
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| Matching Terms: | | debate, debateful, debatefully, debatement
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone who engages in debate |
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| | Synonyms: | | arguer |
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| | See Also: | | controversialist, devil's advocate, disprover, disputant, rebutter, refuter, wrangler |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*bat"er\, n.
One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a
controvertist.
Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | apologist, arguer, argufier, casuist, controversialist, declaimer, demagogue, disceptator, disputant, guardhouse lawyer, haranguer, jawsmith, logomacher, logomachist, mooter, panelist, Philadelphia lawyer, pilpulist, polemic, polemicist, polemist, public speaker, rabble-rouser, ranter, speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter, talker, tub-thumper, wrangler |
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