Interlocutor meaning

ĭn'tər-lŏk'yə-tər
The definition of an interlocutor is a person officially involved in a conversation, or a performer in a minstrel show who performs with the beginning and end performers.

An example of an interlocutor is an official person involved in a conversation about a new traffic law.

An example of an interlocutor a master of ceremonies at a minstrel show.

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The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them.
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An entertainer in a minstrel show who served as master of ceremonies and as a foil for the end men.
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A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation.
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A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader.
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(Scotland, law) A decree of a court.
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Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially.
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A person taking part in a conversation or dialogue.
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Origin of interlocutor

  • A noun-form of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”).
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  • From French interlocutoire, from Latin interlocūtōrium.
    From Wiktionary

Interlocutor Sentence Examples

  • He is introduced by Cicero as an interlocutor in the De oratore and De natura deorum (iii.), as a supporter of the principles of the New Academy.

  • The judgment of Severus himself is no doubt that which he puts in the mouth of his interlocutor Posthumianus: "I am astonished that one and the same man could have so far differed from himself that in the approved portion of his works he has no equal since the apostles, while in that portion for which he is justly blamed it is proved that no man has committed more unseemly errors."

  • A special interest attaches to the dialogues written after the manner of Plato but with Aristotle as principal interlocutor; and some of these, e.g.

  • In the first of his Dialogues (fair models of Cicero), Severus puts into the mouth of an interlocutor (Posthumianus) a pleasing description of the life of coenobites and solitaries in the deserts bordering on Egypt.

  • It brings in the choice of an interlocutor at each stage, and so depends on a concession for what it should prove.'

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