interlocutor
Plural: interlocutors
Noun
- the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- a person who takes part in a conversation
- A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
- A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
- An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
- A decree of a court.
Origin / Etymology
The agent noun counterpart, via suffix -tor, of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”); borrowed from Medieval Latin interlocūtor.
Synonyms
conversational partner, middleman, collocutor, conversant, conversationalist, converser, partner
Scrabble Score: 14
interlocutor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinterlocutor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
interlocutor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary