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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
speaker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a guest speaker/lecturer (=one who is invited to an event from another organization, university etc)
▪ The guest speaker at the conference was Dr. Kim.
keynote speaker
▪ Bill Gates is booked as the keynote speaker.
native speaker
▪ For the spoken language, students are taught by native speakers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
▪ Voice over Around Oxford students from other colleges had mixed feelings. Female speaker I think it's good.
▪ They stole £50. Female speaker I just felt dreadful.
Female speaker I like the bouncing castle. Female speaker I like the bouncing castle because you can go high.
▪ They are unlikely to follow suit Female speaker I don't think we would engage in that sort of thing.
male
▪ Voice over Others are in worse straits. Male speaker I know farmers who still have two hundred acres to get in.
▪ But Michael Grant's father was dissatisfied with the outcome: Male speaker Thirty thousand pounds is nothing for some one's life.
▪ It supports the theory he will strike again. Male speaker There's a feeling of guilt soon after.
Male speaker It's wonderful. Male speaker My favourites are the crocodiles.
native
▪ This involves accessing, directly or indirectly, the intuition of a native speaker.
▪ You select an Esperanto phrase, then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker.
▪ Remember that the language is spoken at normal speed for an audience of native speakers.
▪ The higher stages include adaptations of a wide variety of titles originally published for native speakers.
▪ The situation is different for native speakers of the language who automatically perceive the speech as being chopped up into discrete units.
▪ This process is trivial for a native speaker of a language, however for a computer system the solution is more difficult.
▪ You will need one or more native speakers of the language to help you in your learning.
▪ The listening activities feature dialogues with native and non-native speakers, allowing students to gain access to a wide variety of accents.
■ NOUN
guest
▪ They formed the bedrock of the college's Black Student Society, which regularly invited guest speakers and performers.
▪ Most people tend to have a high expectation of a guest speaker of your reputation.
▪ The monthly meetings include discussions of Club business, talks by guest speakers and vendor presentations.
▪ Every Tuesday a guest speaker from the community came in to talk about a particular aspect of the law.
▪ The department runs a research seminar, with guest speakers and opportunities for postgraduate students to present their work.
▪ Prince Charles, in his capacity as president of the charity Business in the Community, was to be the guest speaker.
▪ The Committee organises an interesting programme which includes visits to science exhibitions and talks by guest speakers.
house
▪ But the House speaker apparently failed to forward any nomination for the automatic but constitutionally required approval of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
▪ Early trends showing continued Republican control of the House assured Gingrich another term as House speaker.
▪ The House speaker said the deadlock may not be broken before the election in November.
▪ The winning party gets to elect the next House speaker.
keynote
▪ I thank you for the honour of being asked to be your keynote speaker tonight.
▪ While serving as state treasurer, Ann Richards was the keynote speaker at the Democrats' 1988 convention in Atlanta.
▪ The keynote speaker had wound up to polite applause.
▪ The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice.
▪ Is it the party that selected Susan Molinari, a moderate, pro-choice congresswoman, as its keynote speaker?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stump speech/speaker
▪ Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech, either.
▪ Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech.
▪ His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.
▪ No soap box, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.
▪ Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.
▪ They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.
▪ Voinovich, 59, is described as a roll-up-the-sleeves fiscal manager and a good stump speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Speakers of Cantonese often cannot understand speakers of Mandarin.
▪ All our English teachers are native speakers.
▪ Doug Williams is the first speaker in tonight's debate.
▪ Each week the school has a different guest speaker come and talk to the students.
▪ Everyone tells me I'm a good speaker, but I really hate doing it.
▪ Former President Carter will be the main speaker at the graduation.
▪ Jennings was one of the keynote speakers at the conference's opening session Thursday.
▪ Kennedy was known as a brilliant public speaker.
▪ The hotel has two English speakers on its staff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A compact disk player, rare for its day, fed Chopin and the Rolling Stones into fierce-looking, six-foot MartinLogan speakers.
▪ The speaker has, in the past, paid a fine for not disclosing fully his property ventures with lobbyists.
▪ The Baby pushes out 30 watts through a single ten-inch dual-cone speaker, and features two channels.
▪ What could be more fun than heckling the problem speaker at your own eulogy?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speaker

Speaker \Speak"er\, n.

  1. One who speaks. Specifically:

    1. 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.

    2. 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.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
speaker

c.1300, "one who speaks," agent noun from speak (v.). Similar formation in Old Frisian spreker, Old High German sprahhari, German Sprecher. First applied to "person who presides over an assembly" c.1400, from similar use in Anglo-French (late 14c.) in reference to the English Parliament; later extended to the U.S. House of Representatives, etc. The electric amplifier so called from 1926, short for loud-speaker.

Wiktionary
speaker

n. 1 One who speaks. 2 loudspeaker. 3 (context politics English) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives. 4 One who makes a speech to an audience. 5 (context US English) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches. 6 (context linguistics English) The producer of a given utterance, whether actually spoken or not.

WordNet
speaker
  1. n. 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"

Wikipedia
Speaker

Speaker may refer to:

  • Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
  • Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
  • HMS Speaker (D90), a WWII Royal Navy aircraft carrier
  • Speaker, in linguistics, a grammatical person, first person as opposed to the addressee and bystanders
  • The Speaker, a BBC television series
  • Los Speakers (or "The Speakers"), a Colombian rock band from the 1960s
  • Tris Speaker an American baseball player
Speaker (politics)

The Speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer (chair). The title was first used in 1377 in England.

Usage examples of "speaker".

It was obvious by the clattering noises over the speaker that Abies was done with them again.

Rose Fuller moved that the address should be recommitted, but no arguments which he, or any speaker that took part with him adduced, could alter the disposition of the house upon the subject, and his motion was negatived by a large majority.

One of the speakers was relating how a very famous advertising mogul insisted that every radio creative meeting be attended by artists as well as copywriters.

In CIC, aerology, the coding room, men listened tensely to the crackling, buzzing speakers that would tell the story of the battle before it broke overhead.

An automatic rheostat must have been mounted to the speaker, for the volume rose steadily, until the noise of the storm wind filled the office, a blast of rushing airlike the sounds of an experimental wind tunnel at maximum velocity.

Baynes, and turned to Ban Sar Din to ask if the ashram offered yoga programs, breathing, discussion groups, chanting, and had guest speakers.

Since it would promote free enterprise, I hoped to get strong bipartisan support and was encouraged by the fact that Speaker Hastert seemed especially interested in the effort.

Space, off Carnaby Street, that was done out like a spaceship, the doors to the sound booths were like airlocks and all the speakers were housed in swoopy blobby cabinets that looked like they were in the middle of a flashback, and there was this other very weird studio called ADR round the back of Kings Cross where there was a stream running half-way up the walls, all the seating was made out of the boots of cars, Minis converted into couches, and you got upstairs to the recording suites through a door opening out of a large tree in the corner of the reception.

They hung Playboy Playmates on the wall, set up his hi-fi, with the tweed speaker covers, and his aquarium with the grow light and the bubbler, which imparted a chill, dank smell to the basement air.

Previous to the time of Socrates, orators in addressing popular assemblies, lawyers in pleading cases, and all public speakers, appear to have made use of the cithara as a sort of accompaniment, if for no other purpose than to assure themselves of securing a proper pitch of the voice.

Patrons occupied all the booths and most of the tables, the combo was setting up in a corner, and several couples on the minuscule dance floor were shaking their assets to a blaring rock tune from hidden speakers that had Magnus gritting his teeth.

This was changed in 1890, by a ruling made by Speaker Reed, and later embodied in Rule XV of the House, that members present in the chamber but not voting would be counted in determining the presence of a quorum.

Gendibal gambled on complete certainty, driving in with a didacticism that would not allow the First Speaker to recover.

The control officer told Gervase to get the speaker to full volume, and went out on to the balcony with Dobbie, propping the light trap doors open behind them.

We are now asking you to take his place at the Council of the Elderhood, meeting in Cluster One, to be speakers for your species.