oratory

Meanings

Plural: oratories

Noun

• addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
  • "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
• A private chapel or prayer room.
• A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
• A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
• The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
• Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.

Synonyms

public speaking