SPEAKER

loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system

(noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance

speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser

(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”

Speaker

(noun) the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; “the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

speaker (plural speakers)

One who speaks.

Loudspeaker.

Speakerphone.

(politics) 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.

(US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.

(especially, in linguistics) The producer of a given utterance (text, etc), whether actually spoken or e.g. written.

(music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.

Synonyms

• talker

Anagrams

• Preseka, parkees, peakers, re-speak, respeak

Noun

Speaker (plural Speakers)

The Speaker of the House of Commons

Anagrams

• Preseka, parkees, peakers, re-speak, respeak

Source: Wiktionary

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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition