interlocutor — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.

   Synonyms

   converserconversantconversationalistpartnercollocutor

   Examples

   Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.

   More examples (1)

   In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.

2. A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.

   Examples

   The "interlocutor" greeted the audience and engaged in comical repartee with the "end men," named Tambo and Bones.

3. An interlocutory judgement or sentence.

Noun

1. A decree of a court.

   Examples

   A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree (interlocutor) of the Scottish Court of Session in England.

Noun

1. a performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk

   Broader terms

   minstrel

2. a person who takes part in a conversation

   Synonyms

   conversational partner

   Broader terms

   conversationalistconversationistschmoozer