Definition of "ventriloquist"

ventriloquist

/vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/

noun
plural ventriloquists
1. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
  Quotations
  Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
  1871, Benjamin Jowett, The Sophist, translation of original by Plato
  "Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […] "
  1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Chapter 15”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co.