interlocutor
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Definition of interlocutor
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
“Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.”
“In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.”
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noun
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A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
“Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.”
“In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.”
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A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
“The "interlocutor" greeted the audience and engaged in comical repartee with the "end men," named Tambo and Bones.”
- An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
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A decree of a court.
“A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree (interlocutor) of the Scottish Court of Session in England.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin interlocūtor, from the agent noun counterpart (via the suffix -tor) of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”).
Words you can make from interlocutor
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22 words- COLOURER 10 pts
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- CORNETTI 10 pts
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- COURTIER 10 pts
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- INTERCUT 10 pts
- LOCUTION 10 pts
- NEUROTIC 10 pts
- RECOLOUR 10 pts
- TINCTURE 10 pts
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7-letter words
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6-letter words
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- RECTOR 8 pts
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- ENTOIL 6 pts
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- IRONER 6 pts
- LETOUT 6 pts
- LINTER 6 pts
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