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Speaker

//ˈspikɚ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname
Noun
  1. 1
    One who speaks.

    "There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of speaker (“presiding officer of a legislative body”). alt-of
  3. 3
    electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance wordnet
  4. 4
    Loudspeaker.

    "She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival."

  5. 5
    someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) wordnet
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  1. 6
    Speakerphone.

    "you're on speaker"

  2. 7
    the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly wordnet
  3. 8
    The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
  4. 9
    One who makes a speech to an audience.

    "Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer"

  5. 10
    A book containing passages of text for use in speeches. US
  6. 11
    The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text. especially

    "The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ..."

  7. 12
    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. especially

    "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"."

  8. 13
    A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (compare octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
  9. 14
    A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect. archaic

    "With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration."

Etymology

From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).

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