резонёр

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nounmasculineanimatecountable

1.
moralizer, arguer, reasoner, philosophizer
Он ску́чный резонёр и ве́чно всех поуча́ет.
He is a boring moralizer and is forever lecturing everyone.
Usually disapproving: someone who holds forth with tedious moral or logical arguments.
2.
(rare) raisonneur, author's mouthpiece (character)theatre
В э́той пье́се резонёр выска́зывает мысли а́втора.
In this play the raisonneur voices the author's ideas.
Literary term for a character through whom the author states his position.

Examples

Резонёр в романе постоянно поучает других героев.
The raisonneur in the novel is constantly lecturing the other characters.
Этот герой пьесы типичный резонёр.
This character in the play is a typical raisonneur.