'orators' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to people who speak publicly, usually in order to influence others. Example sentence: Several renowned orators gave speeches at the rally.
Kennedy was regarded as one of Britain's finest orators in recent years and was nicknamed "Chat Show Charlie" in light of his easy manner on television that once saw him chair an edition of Have I Got News for You.
In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
One of the greatest debaters, orators and communicators, who brought humour to politics, he was a man who effortlessly combined rock-like conviction with an openness to argument and a readiness to listen.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers, if present at all, sit diagonally behind the orators, so that they can ignore them and catch up on some reading.
Black America once had a flourishing tradition of self-help: the tradition of Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery but became one of the great orators of his age, and of the army of self-educated blacks who came after him.
The irony about today's great house of commons men, whether great orators like Chatham or debaters like Fox, is that nobody outside the house hears what they say inside it, or much cares.
Orators have always understood that their listeners must believe in the good character of the person addressing them if he is to have any chance of winning them to his cause.
They visit a boot camp for would-be orators run by an old Greek called Molon.
FEW speeches made on the Senate floor have the impact their orators hope for.
Their grand staircases are often lined with busts of Roman orators, while on the ceilings frescoed men do civic things in togas.
Spin-doctors remove gags from the extracts they leak to journalists in the vain hope that they will appear spontaneous.Few senior British politicians are great orators; most began as policy wonks, not street campaigners.
