speaker

Plural: speakers

Noun

• One who speaks; a person giving a speech or lecture.
• someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
  • "the speaker at commencement"
• electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
• the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly
  • "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
• One who speaks.
• Loudspeaker.
• Speakerphone.
• 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.
• A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
• The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
• The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
• The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
• A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (compare octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
• A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect.

Examples

• hired speaker;   motivational speaker
• I'm gonna put you on speaker now
• Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
• She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
• The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
• The Words With Friends chat became a forum for a lively SPEAKER on advanced strategies.
• There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
• you're on speaker

Synonyms

loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer, speaker, speechmaker