speaker
IPA: spˈikɝ
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- Shurtleff was a speaker at B'nai Shalom's semiannual conference in April 2010.