speaker
UK/ˈspiːkə//ˈspikɚ/
speaker noun: one who speaks.
Noun (1)
speaker (plural speakers)
- One who speaks.
- 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 ...1989, R. Norman Whybray, Ecclesiastes, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 15
- Loudspeaker.
- She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
- Speakerphone.
- you're on speaker
- I'm gonna put you on speaker now
- The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
- One who makes a speech to an audience.
- Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer
- hired speaker; motivational speaker
- Synonyms:
- speechmaker, orator, presenter, announcer
- A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
- The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
- 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 ...2002, Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 242
- The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
- 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".
- A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (compare octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
- A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect.
- With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 18
Noun (2) capitalized: Speaker
Speaker (plural Speakers)
- Alternative letter-case form of speaker (“presiding officer of a legislative body”).
Proper noun capitalized: Speaker
Speaker
- A surname
speaker meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
speaker in Hindi
- one who speaks
- वक्ता vaktā, वाचक vācak
- politics: the chair or presiding officer
- सभापति sabhāpti, अध्यक्ष adhyakṣ
- one who makes a speech to an audience
- वक्ता vaktā
speaker in Tamil
- பேச்சாளர், பேசுபவர்
speaker in Marathi
- one who speaks
- बोलणारा bolṇārā, बोलणारी bolṇārī, बोलणारे bolṇāre
speaker in Urdu
- one who speaks
- مُتَکَلِم mutakalim, مُتَکَلِّم mutakallim, گویَنْدَہ goyanda
- loudspeaker — see also loudspeaker
- مکبر الصوت mukabbir-ussaut
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- speaker in Bengali
- বক্তা, স্পিকার
- speaker in Telugu
- వక్త vakta
- speaker in Malayalam
- സംസാരിക്കുന്നയാൾ saṁsārikkunnayāḷ, സ്പീക്കർ spīkkaṟ, പ്രാസംഗികൻ prāsaṅgikaṉ, പ്രഭാഷകൻ prabhāṣakaṉ
- speaker in Kannada
- ಸ್ಪೀಕರ್, ಭಾಷಣಕಾರ
- speaker in Punjabi
- ਭਾਸ਼ਣਕਾਰ, ਬੁਲਾਰਾ, ਬੋਲਣ ਵਾਲਾ
- speaker in Gujarati
- વક્તા, સ્પીકર
- speaker in Odia
- ବକ୍ତା
- speaker in Nepali
- वक्ता
- speaker in Arabic
- خَطِيب ḵaṭīb, مُتَكَلِّم mutakallim, مُحَدِّث muḥaddiṯ, سَمَاعَة samāʕa
- speaker in Malay
- penutur, pembesar suara
- speaker in Indonesian
- bahasawan, penutur, pemakai bahasa, pengguna bahasa
- speaker in Thai
- ลำโพง lam-poong, โฆษก koo-sòk
- speaker in Vietnamese
- loa, nghị trưởng, chủ tịch nghị viện, nhà hùng biện
- Kashmiri
- ووک vōk, وَنَن وول vanan vōl
Examples of speaker in a sentence
- The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
- As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language.2011 October 28, Adam Thirlwell, “The Joyful Side of Translation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
- Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong.2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN...
Synonyms of speaker
Forms of speaker
| plural | speakers |
|---|---|
| plural | Speakers |
Origin of speaker
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”).
Words formed from speaker
- 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
Phrases with speaker
Words that rhyme with speaker
Questions about speaker
- What does speaker mean?
- Speaker means one who speaks.
- What is speaker in Hindi?
- Speaker in Hindi is वक्ता (vaktā), वाचक (vācak), सभापति (sabhāpti). See Speaker meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use speaker in a sentence?
- The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
- What part of speech is speaker?
- Speaker can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce speaker?
- Speaker is pronounced /ˈspikɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of speaker?
- The plural of speaker is speakers.
Words near speaker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: speaker (page history and authors); Speaker (page history and authors); speaker (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); speaker (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); speaker (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); speaker (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); speaker (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); speaker (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); speaker (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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