0 a person who gives speeches in public, especially someone who is skilled at doing this:
He was considered as persuasive a speechmaker as he had been a pastor.
The speechmaker showed, in words, that he was also a man of experience, and a man who wanted to give something back to the people who gave it to him.
As an inspirational speech-maker, the manager hardly ranks alongside Bill Shankly, let alone Winston Churchill.
