speaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
entertainment
government
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
music
poetry
politics
publishing
writing
Etymology: From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).
Base: speak
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: speakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who speaks.
pos: noun
examples: There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
This title is derived from the first verse of the book (1.1), which is a heading or colophon informing the reader who this Qoheleth was: he was the author of the book, or at least the speaker of the words which are contained in it ...
As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.
Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.
gloss: Loudspeaker.
pos: noun
examples: She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
gloss: Speakerphone.
pos: noun
examples: you're on speaker
I'm gonna put you on speaker now
gloss: The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
pos: noun
gloss: One who makes a speech to an audience.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer
hired speaker;   motivational speaker
The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
gloss: A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ...
gloss: The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
gloss: A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (compare octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration.
Synonyms: talker
speaker
Derived words: doublespeaker
ear speaker
forespeaker
forthspeaker
gainspeaker
guest speaker
heritage speaker
interspeaker
intraspeaker
lawspeaker
lay speaker
multispeaker
native-speaker
native speaker
non-native speaker
non-native-speaker
nonspeaker
PA speaker
PC speaker
plenary speaker
public speaker
remote speaker
semispeaker
smart speaker
speaker base
speaker enclosure
speakeress
speakerless
speakerlike
speakerly
speaker point
speaker pro tempore
speakership
tongues-speaker
tongues speaker
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: puhuja
lang: French
word: locuteur
lang: French
word: locutrice
lang: Indonesian
word: bahasawan
lang: Indonesian
word: penutur
lang: Indonesian
word: pemakai bahasa
lang: Indonesian
word: pengguna bahasa
lang: Macedonian
word: говорник
roman: govornik
lang: Malay
word: penutur
lang: Iranian Persian
word: گویِشور
roman: guyešur
lang: Spanish
word: locutor