VENTRILOQUIST

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Meaning:

A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ventriloquist" is a kind of...):

performer; performing artist (an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience)

Derivation:

ventriloquism; ventriloquy (the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy))