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English

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-speaker.ogg



Etymology

Noun

  1. One who speaks.
  2. : A native English speaker.
  3. loudspeaker|Loudspeaker.
  4. The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
  5. One who makes a speech to an audience.
  6. : The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Speaker \Speak"er\, n.
1. One who speaks. Specifically:
(a) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one
who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good
speaker, or a bad speaker.
(b) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one
who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative
assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates;
as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally,
the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the
Speaker of a House of Representatives.
[1913 Webster]

2. A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet speaker
n 1: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks
(especially someone who delivers a public speech or
someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at
commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" [syn: talker,
utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]
2: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals
into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: loudspeaker,
speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system]
3: the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the
leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House
of Representatives"
Moby Dictionary
acoustical network , capacitor speaker , chair , chairman , chatterbox ,
coaxial speaker , cone , convener , conversationalist ,
crossover network , debater , declaimer , demagogue , diaphragm ,
dynamic speaker , earphone , electrodynamic speaker ,
electromagnetic speaker , electrostatic speaker ,
excited-field speaker , full-fidelity speaker , haranguer , headphone ,
headset , herald , high-fidelity speaker , high-frequency speaker ,
horn , jawsmith , keynoter , lecturer , loudspeaker ,
low-frequency speaker , midrange speaker , monorange speaker , mouth ,
mouthpiece , moving-coil speaker , official spokesman , orator ,
panelist , patterer , permanent magnet speaker , presiding officer ,
prolocutor , prolocutress , prolocutrix , public speaker ,
rabble-rouser , ranter , rapporteur , reporter , sayer , speaker system ,
speaker unit , speecher , speechifier , speechmaker , spieler ,
spokesman , spokesperson , spokeswoman , spouter , talker ,
triaxial speaker , tub-thumper , tweeter , utterer , voice , voice coil ,
woofer


FOLDOC speaker

1. loudspeaker.

2. The person who is (assumed to be) talking.

(1996-12-01)


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