Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art of projecting one's voice so that it seems to come from another source, as from a wooden figure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act, art, or practice of speaking or uttering sounds in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from a distance, as from the opposite side of the room or from the Cellar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from a dummy held by the ventriloquist, from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of
projecting one'svoice without moving the lips so that itappears to come from anothersource , such as adummy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only word in that passage which appears to hint at what we call ventriloquism is
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The voices are strong throughout, but Gregory's ventriloquism is at its best with Bess of Hardwick, a woman who managed to throw off the restrictions of birth, class and sex in order to achieve things that proved beyond her titled husband.
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As a boy he developed the skill in ventriloquism that he later used to earn his tuition at Northwestern University.
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For some time his ventriloquism was a great annoyance to some few of the guard at Camp Douglas.
John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ... 1893
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And it is a very common thing in Chinese opera to do these kind of ventriloquism, or to have cross-dressing, for instance.
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And it is a very common thing in Chinese opera to do these kind of ventriloquism, or to have cross-dressing, for instance.
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And it is a very common thing in Chinese opera to do these kind of ventriloquism, or to have cross-dressing, for instance.
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And it is a very common thing in Chinese opera to do these kind of ventriloquism, or to have cross-dressing, for instance.
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Humans possessed by spirits are often described as ill or distressed, lacking power, control, and agency, and spirit possession has been described as a kind of ventriloquism in which mediums acquire a voice more powerful than their own as humans.
Santeros October Fête On Sorte Mountain Christopher 2007
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Humans possessed by spirits are often described as ill or distressed, lacking power, control, and agency, and spirit possession has been described as a kind of ventriloquism in which mediums acquire a voice more powerful than their own as humans.
Archive 2007-11-01 Christopher 2007
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