Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Speaker"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
speaker
n 1: 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: {talker},
{utterer}, {verbalizer}, {verbaliser}]
2: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals
into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: {loudspeaker},
{speaker unit}, {loudspeaker system}, {speaker system}]
3: the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the
leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House
of Representatives" [syn: {Speaker}]
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