Dictionary Definition
speaker
Noun
1 someone who expresses in language; someone who
talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone
especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer
of useful maxims" [syn: talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]
2 electro-acoustic transducer that converts
electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a
distance [syn: loudspeaker, speaker
unit, loudspeaker
system, speaker
system]
3 the presiding officer of a deliberative
assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the
House of Representatives"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːkə(r)
Etymology
-er speakNoun
- One who speaks.
- A native English speaker.
- Loudspeaker.
- 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.
- The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
Translations
one who speaks
- Arabic: khatib
- Czech: mluvčí
- Danish: taler
- Dutch: spreker
- Finnish: puhuja
- French: parleur, locuteur (speaker of a language)
- German: Sprecher
- Japanese: 話者 (washa)
- Maltese: kelliem , kelliema
- Romanian: vorbitor , vorbitoare
- Russian: носитель (nosítel’, of a language) ; говорящий (govorjáščij)
- Swedish: talare
loudspeaker
- Arabic: سماعة
- Danish: højtalere
- Dutch: box, luidspreker
- Finnish: kaiutin, kovaääninen, kajari (colloquial)
- French: baffle
- German: Lautsprecher
- Hebrew: רמקול (ramkol)
- Japanese: スピーカー (supīkā)
- Macedonian: звучник (zvučnik)
- Maltese: spiker
- Persian: (boland-gou)
- Portuguese: alto-falante
- Russian: громкоговоритель (gromkogovorítel’) , динамик (dinámik) , колонка (kolónka)
- Swedish: högtalare
politics: the chair or presiding officer
one who makes a speech to an audience
External links
Extensive Definition
Speaker may refer to:
Individuals
- Andrew Speaker, American lawyer who travelled with antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis
- Raymond Speaker, Canadian politician
- Tris Speaker, American baseball player
People in general
- A person who is using speech communication, or sometimes sign language
- Orator, giving a speech or lecture; see also public speaking
- Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
- Deixis in linguistics relies on the point of view of a speaker
- Native speaker of a first language
- Music
- Speaker (song), first single for David Banner's album The Greatest Story Ever Told
Things
- Loudspeaker, an electromechanical device producing sound
- HMS Speaker (D90), a WWII Royal Navy aircraft carrier
Popular culture
- Speaker (Scandinavian music group)
- Speaker for the Dead in the Ender's Game series
speaker in Danish: Speaker
speaker in French: Speaker
speaker in Italian: Speaker
speaker in Dutch: Speaker
speaker in Simple English: Speaker
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, woofer