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Ventriloquist vs Ventriloquous - What's the difference?

ventriloquist | ventriloquous |

As a noun ventriloquist

is a person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.

As an adjective ventriloquous is

of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.

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

    ventriloquous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
    • (Webster 1913)