spokesman

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: spokes=man
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

spokesman, n. [Speak, spoke + man.].

 One who speaks for another.  [1913 Webster]
"He shall be thy spokesman unto the people."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spokesman, n. (pl. -men; fem. spokeswoman, pl. -women)
1 a person who speaks on behalf of others, esp. in the course of public relations.
2 a person deputed to express the views of a group etc.

Etymology

irreg. f. SPOKE(2) after craftsman etc.

THESAURUS

spokesman

adviser, agent, announcer, annunciator, authority, champion, channel, communicant, communicator, connection, debater, declaimer, delegate, demagogue, deputy, enlightener, expert witness, front, front man, go-between, gossipmonger, grapevine, haranguer, herald, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, intervener, interventionist, interventor, interviewee, jawsmith, mediator, medium, middleman, monitor, mouth, mouthpiece, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, newsmonger, notifier, official spokesman, ombudsman, panelist, press, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, prophet, protagonist, public relations officer, public speaker, publisher, rabble-rouser, radio, ranter, rapporteur, reporter, representative, source, speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler, spokesperson, spokeswoman, spouter, talker, television, teller, tipster, tout, tub-thumper, voice, witness

ROGET THESAURUS

spokesman

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

Interpreter

N interpreter, expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer, demonstrator, scholiast, commentator, annotator, metaphrast, paraphrast, glossarist, prolocutor, spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece, dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman, oneirocritic, (Edipus, oracle).