Word.ws English Dictionary

upspeaker

upspeaker noun: one who speaks up; an advocate.

Noun

upspeaker (plural upspeakers)

  1. One who speaks up; an advocate.
  2. One who speaks with upspeak, or the raising of intonation at the end of statements.
    • The upspeak rule is applied non-systematically, i.e. upspeakers do not convert all RP falling tones to rising tones, even where the structural conditions for the operation of the rule are fulfilled.2003, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology

Forms of upspeaker

pluralupspeakers

Origin of upspeaker

From upspeak + -er.

Questions about upspeaker

What does upspeaker mean?
Upspeaker means one who speaks up; an advocate.
What part of speech is upspeaker?
Upspeaker is a noun.
What is the plural of upspeaker?
The plural of upspeaker is upspeakers.

Words near upspeaker in the dictionary

  1. Upson County
  2. upsot
  3. upsought
  4. upspake
  5. upspeak
  6. upspeaker
  7. upspeakers
  8. upspeaking
  9. upspeaks
  10. upspear
  11. upspeared

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upspeaker (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “upspeaker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/upspeaker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.