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Speaker   /spˈikər/   Listen
Speaker

noun
1.
Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous).  Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer.  "An utterer of useful maxims"
2.
Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance.  Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit.
3.
The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly.



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"Speaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... question, pointed though it was, went unanswered. The main speaker—shrieker, rather—was plainly a person with a mania for details, and even in this emergency she intended, as now developed, to present all the principal facts in the case, and likewise all the incidental facts so far as these fell within her ...
— The Life of the Party • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... been given her to go out in the afternoon to make some purchases, she was rather late in returning, and Bertha, meeting her as she entered, asked her to be as quick as possible in getting tea; whereupon the domestic threw up her head and regarded the speaker from under her eyelids with an extraordinary smile; then with a "Yes, miss, this minute, miss" scampered upstairs to take her things off. All that evening her behaviour was strange. As she waited at the ...
— Will Warburton • George Gissing
... tea the girls sat in the firelight, visiting. Often a speaker was provided for the evening's entertainment—a celebrity, if possible. The best in the way of culture for her ...
— Blue Bonnet in Boston - or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's • Caroline E. Jacobs
... on both speaker and listener are seeing more clearly every minute. Besides, in order to see accurately they are drawing on their own previous knowledge and experience, and are reasoning just as truly as though they were solving a ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... speaker proceeded, "that shows you. These damned Mercutians are not invulnerable. They can be overcome, chased off the Earth. But we've got to ...
— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner


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