Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun edmund_burke

1 sense of edmund burke

Sense 1
Burke, Edmund Burke -- (British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797))
       INSTANCE OF=> statesman, solon, national leader -- (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
       INSTANCE OF=> orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier -- (a person who delivers a speech or oration)