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speaker
1[ spee-ker ]
noun
- a person who speaks.
- a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.
- (usually initial capital letter) the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, the British House of Commons, or other such legislative assembly.
- Also called loudspeaker. an electroacoustic device, often housed in a cabinet, that is connected as a component in an audio system, its function being to make speech or music audible.
- a book of selections for practice in declamation.
Speaker
2[ spee-ker ]
noun
- Tris(tram E.), 1888–1958, U.S. baseball player.
speaker
1/ ˈspiːkə /
Speaker
2/ ˈspiːkə /
noun
- the presiding officer in any of numerous legislative bodies, including the House of Commons in Britain and Canada and the House of Representatives in the US, Australia, and New Zealand
Derived Forms
- ˈspeakership, noun
Other Words From
- speaker·ship noun
- non·speaker noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- be / not be on speakers, British. speaking ( defs 9, 10 ).
Example Sentences
Moderators and featured speakers discourse on an online stage, and if audience members want to add to the conversation they can raise a virtual hand.
There’s also a speaker mode for conversations with more than one person in which the translations play through a Bluetooth-connected mobile phone and one earbud.
Though, I was able to pull myself together and jot down a few outstanding quotes from our speakers.
A veteran of the SEO industry Kevin has been a speaker at BrightonSEO and other industry events and now leads the MarTech and Media team at Nordic Morning’s Malmö office in Sweden.
I’ve seen some sneak peeks of the topics and session takeaways, and I can’t wait for attendees to see all the tactical analysis that our speakers are bringing to this virtual event.
The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
At a press conference today with Scalise, Speaker Boehner again defended him.
NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.
House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.
Normally, 434 members (minus Michael Grimm who resigned) would vote for Speaker.
Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller.
Though the average speaker is generally limited by one type of voice, which he varies somewhat, it is not often disguised.
Allcraft winced, as every syllable made known the speaker's actual strength—his own dependence and utter weakness.
Michael listened impatiently, and interrupted the speaker in the midst of his oration.
However able the matter, the reading, in my judgment, is much less effective than the spontaneous expression of the speaker.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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