WordNet
n. a speech setting forth the keynote [syn: keynote address]
Usage examples of "keynote speech".
It was foreshadowed in Tamara Sakhvadze's keynote speech before the First Congress on Metapsychology in Alma-Ata in September 1992, where vigorous exception was taken to it by certain factions.
One of my memories of that weekend is Terry the Tramp's keynote speech delivered to the police on the highway.
It was no secret he and Swan had been doing a bit of posturing and jockeying in '95 - the odd fringe meeting or keynote speech - just to see where the land lay with the backbenchers, but as everyone else was at it, it would have been silly not to buy a ticket for that particular raffle.
He had studied them for years, even delivered the keynote speech at an archaeological conference devoted to the topic, but he had never expected to witness them in person, let alone in their original condition.