speaker
Other forms: speakers
A speaker is someone who delivers a speech or a device that makes sounds louder. The speaker gave a great speech but you couldn't hear it because the speaker was turned off.
Speaker has a few different meanings, from the person who addresses a group, to the piece of equipment that amplifies sound to someone who is fluent in a particular language. For example, a native Spanish speaker can usually tell if someone learned the language in high school because textbooks don't always include the slang and idioms of everyday speech.
Definitions of speaker
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someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)“the speaker at commencement”synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizertypes:alliteratora speaker or writer who makes use of alliterationbabbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouteran obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talkerdictatora speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machinedrawlersomeone who speaks with a drawlejaculatora speaker who utters a sudden exclamationgrowlera speaker whose voice sounds like a growllecturersomeone who lectures professionallylispera speaker who lispsmentionera speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentallymotormouthsomeone who talks incessantlyorator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmakera person who delivers a speech or orationprattlersomeone who speaks in a childish wayrecitersomeone who recites from memorynative speakera speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhoodstentora speaker with an unusually loud voicetalking heada talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screenventera speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievancevociferatora loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest)voicera speaker who voices an opinionwailera mourner who utters long loud high-pitched crieswhispererone who speaks in a whisperattestant, attestersomeone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of somethingcross-examiner, cross-questionersomeone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier)deipnosophistsomeone skilled at informal chitchatelocutionista public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and deliveryfabulista person who tells or invents fablesgriota storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or villageharanguera public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speechinterviewera person who conducts an interviewspellbinderan orator who can hold his listeners spellboundtub-thumpera noisy and vigorous or ranting public speakertype of:articulatorsomeone who pronounces words
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the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
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electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distancesynonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unittypes:subwoofera loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequenciestannoya loudspeakertweetera loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency soundswoofera loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency soundstype of:electro-acoustic transducera transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa
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