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speaker
CIDE DICTIONARY
speaker, n.
- One who speaks. [1913 Webster]
- A book of selections for declamation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
speaker, n.
1 a person who speaks, esp. in public.
2 a person who speaks a specified language (esp. in comb.: a French-speaker).
3 (Speaker) the presiding officer in a legislative assembly, esp. the House of Commons.
4 = LOUDSPEAKER.
1 a person who speaks, esp. in public.
2 a person who speaks a specified language (esp. in comb.: a French-speaker).
3 (Speaker) the presiding officer in a legislative assembly, esp. the House of Commons.
4 = LOUDSPEAKER.
Derivative
speakership n.
THESAURUS
speaker
acoustical network, capacitor speaker, chair, chairman, chatterbox, coaxial speaker, cone, convener, conversationalist, crossover network, debater, declaimer, demagogue, diaphragm, dynamic speaker, earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker, full-fidelity speaker, haranguer, headphone, headset, herald, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, horn, jawsmith, keynoter, lecturer, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker, midrange speaker, monorange speaker, mouth, mouthpiece, moving-coil speaker, official spokesman, orator, panelist, patterer, permanent magnet speaker, presiding officer, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, public speaker, rabble-rouser, ranter, rapporteur, reporter, sayer, speaker system, speaker unit, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, spouter, talker, triaxial speaker, tub-thumper, tweeter, utterer, voice, voice coil, wooferROGET THESAURUS
speaker
Speech
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.Director
N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.Interpreter
N interpreter, expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer, demonstrator, scholiast, commentator, annotator, metaphrast, paraphrast, glossarist, prolocutor, spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece, dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman, oneirocritic, (Edipus, oracle).For further exploring for "speaker" in Webster Dictionary Online