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loud speaker

loud speaker is the alternative form of loudspeaker.

Meaning of loudspeaker

Noun

loudspeaker (plural loudspeakers)

  1. An electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound.
    • Unintelligible announcements on station loudspeakers are both irritating and confusing.1953 August, “Station Announcements”, in Railway Magazine, page 506
    Synonyms:
    speaker
  2. Any such transducer that is loud, as opposed to quiet ones such as those found in headphones.
  3. An encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices and usually other electrical equipment such as a driver.

Forms of loud speaker

pluralloud speakers

Questions about loud speaker

What is loud speaker the alternative form of?
Loud speaker is the alternative form of loudspeaker.

Words near loud speaker in the dictionary

  1. loud hailers
  2. loud mouth
  3. loud mouths
  4. loud silence
  5. loud silences
  6. loud speaker
  7. loud speakers
  8. loud-hailer
  9. loud-hailers
  10. loudcasting
  11. Loudcest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loud speaker (page history and authors); loudspeaker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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