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Interlocutor   /ˌɪntərlˈɑkjətər/   Listen
Interlocutor

noun
1.
The performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk.  Synonym: middleman.
2.
A person who takes part in a conversation.  Synonym: conversational partner.






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"Interlocutor" Quotes from Famous Books



... hinting at possibilities and probabilities, adducing proofs which other amateur detectives were equally ready to refute. The attitude of that timid man in the corner, therefore, was peculiarly exasperating, and she retorted with sarcasm destined to completely annihilate her self-complacent interlocutor. ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy

... gave his interlocutor no immediate satisfaction; he was musing, with a frown. "By Jove," he said, "they go rather too far. They SHALL find me dangerous—I ...
— An International Episode • Henry James

... surprisingly pleasant. He spoke very deliberately, so that one felt occasionally that he was pausing to find the right words. And, in addition to the quality of that deep voice, he had an impersonal way of looking his interlocutor squarely in the eye, a habit that pleased the men of the mountain desert. On this occasion his companion responded at once with a grin. He was a younger man than Riley Sinclair, but he gave an impression of as much ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand

... appear," assented my interlocutor, apparently in nowise offended at my brusque method of answering him. "And you are an Englishman, of course. What ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

... repress a smile, knowing perfectly that her interlocutor had been among the first to demand for her son the ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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