debater

From debate +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈbeɪtə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

debater (plural debaters)

1. One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:arguer

   William is a great debater.

   • 2009, Patsy Clairmont, All Cracked Up: Experiencing God in the Broken Places:

     Benjamin Disraeli, who was a pretty bright guy—a novelist, debater, and prime minister of England—tried to identify a person once and ended up exclaiming, "A Polish nobleman, a Count somebody; I never can remember their crack-jaw name."

   • 2017 September 26, Jack McCordick, “The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics”, in America‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: America Press Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 June 2023:

     Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)

• “debater”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “debater”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “debater”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

• berated, betread, rebated, tabered

• Hyphenation: de‧ba‧ter

debater (first-person singular present debato, first-person singular preterite debati, past participle debatido)

1. to debate, discuss, dispute, contest
2. (reflexive) to flounder (to flop around)