oratory

About 1.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A private chapel or prayer room. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. noun A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
3. noun A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
4. noun The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
5. noun Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.

Similar words

chapel speech rhetoric speaking oration declamation speechmaking public speaking eloquence address

Often followed by

of and in was is to at which as

Word family

Oratories Oratory oratories