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Ventriloquist - What does it mean?

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ventriloquist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
  • * 1871 , Plato, translated by :
    • Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
  • * 1900 , :
    • "Oh, I am a ventriloquist ," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. "

    Synonyms

    * biloquist

    Derived terms

    * ventriloquistic

    Not English

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