speaker

IPA: spˈikɝ

One who speaks.
Loudspeaker.
Speakerphone.
(politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
One who makes a speech to an audience.
(US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
(especially in linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
(poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
(music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
(archaic) A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect; alternatively spyeker
A surname
(politics) Alternative letter-case form of speaker (“presiding officer of a legislative body”) [One who speaks.]

Examples of "speaker" in Sentences

President is today's speaker.
The speaker equivocated the speech.
The audience enthused at the speaker.
The speaker on the podium was amazing.
They noticed the adroitness of speaker.
Dalai Lama was the keynote speaker at the conference.
Most people think she is overpaid and a poor public speaker.
If the speaker is a woman, she's got the crowd's sincere support.
Taylor was also the keynote speaker at the conference in previous years.
Plug the ends of the speaker wires into the back of each desktop speaker.
Tim43 says: plus the fact that the speaker is the most hated woman in America
Shurtleff was a speaker at B'nai Shalom's semiannual conference in April 2010.
The main speaker is Marc Joffe, a local libertarian supporter of Antiwar. com.
If the speaker is a man, he's lucky if someone doesn't make a joke at his expense during his next trip to the bathroom.
Rather than that, it seemed as though the speaker is a cliché revolutionary and the listener something of a numb sounding-board.
With Congress approval rating at an all time low, plus the fact that the speaker is the most hated woman in America, incumbents are toast.
Here it is: Whenever a speaker begins his or her remarks by saying, \ "I\'m not a public speaker\", my fiend and I will, at that point, get up and leave.
Here it is: Whenever a speaker begins his or her remarks by saying, \ "I\'m not a public speaker\", my friend and I will, at that point, get up and leave.