'Speaker' definitions:
Definition of 'speaker'
From: WordNet
noun
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: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]
noun
Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system]
noun
The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
Definition of 'Speaker'
From: GCIDE
- Speaker \Speak"er\, n.
- 1. One who speaks. Specifically: (a) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. (b) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'speaker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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