demonstrator

[ dem-uhn-strey-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that demonstrates.
2. Also a person who takes part in a public demonstration, as by marching or picketing.
3. a person who explains orteaches by practical demonstrations.
4. a person who exhibits the use and application of (a product, service, etc.) to a prospective customer.
5. the product, device, machine, etc., actually used in demonstrations to purchasers or prospective customers:

   They sold the demonstrator at half price.

demonstrator

/ ˈdɛmənˌstreɪtə /

noun

1. a person who demonstrates equipment, machines, products, etc
2. a person who takes part in a public demonstration
3. a piece of merchandise, such as a car that one test-drives, used to display merits or performance to prospective buyers

Other Words From

• counter·demon·strator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of demonstrator¹

1605–15; < Latin dēmonstrātor, equivalent to dēmonstrā ( re ) ( demonstrate ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

Police in Georgia have clashed with demonstrators in the centre of the capital Tbilisi protesting against last month's disputed election which they say was stolen by the government.

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"This protest has nothing to do with antisemitism," Alexander van Stokkum, one of the demonstrators, told the AFP news agency on Sunday.

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He also attended the RAR march and concert at Victoria Park in London in the same year, joined by an estimated 100,000 demonstrators.

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On the day the laws started to be debated in Darwin last month, a small crowd of demonstrators stood outside parliament in a last-ditch effort to turn the political tide.

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On Thursday evening before the match police accompanied pro-Palestinian demonstrators and mostly managed to keep them separate from football fans - but were then unable to prevent attacks later in the evening.

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Related Words

• marcher
• radical
• rioter
• striker