Interlocutor

Quick meaning: Interlocutor is a noun meaning A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.

Meaning

A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.

More Meanings

1. A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
2. (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
3. (Scots law) A decree of a court.

Example Sentences

The "interlocutor" greeted the audience and engaged in comical repartee with the "end men," named Tambo and Bones.

Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.

A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree (interlocutor) of the Scottish Court of Session in England.

In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.

Word Forms

• interlocutors
• interlocutour

Synonyms for interlocutor

Depending on context, synonyms include converser, conversant, conversationalist, partner, collocutor, middleman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include middleman, discussant, speaker, listener, interviewer, representative.

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