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speaker
1[ spee-ker ]
noun
- a person who speaks.
- a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.
- (usually initial capital letter) the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, the British House of Commons, or other such legislative assembly.
- Also called loudspeaker. an electroacoustic device, often housed in a cabinet, that is connected as a component in an audio system, its function being to make speech or music audible.
- a book of selections for practice in declamation.
Speaker
2[ spee-ker ]
noun
- Tris(tram E.), 1888–1958, U.S. baseball player.
speaker
1/ ˈspiːkə /
Speaker
2/ ˈspiːkə /
noun
- the presiding officer in any of numerous legislative bodies, including the House of Commons in Britain and Canada and the House of Representatives in the US, Australia, and New Zealand
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Derived Forms
- ˈspeakership, noun
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Other Words From
- speaker·ship noun
- non·speaker noun
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- be / not be on speakers, British. speaking ( defs 9, 10 ).
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Example Sentences
The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
At a press conference today with Scalise, Speaker Boehner again defended him.
NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.
House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.
Normally, 434 members (minus Michael Grimm who resigned) would vote for Speaker.
Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller.
Though the average speaker is generally limited by one type of voice, which he varies somewhat, it is not often disguised.
Allcraft winced, as every syllable made known the speaker's actual strength—his own dependence and utter weakness.
Michael listened impatiently, and interrupted the speaker in the midst of his oration.
However able the matter, the reading, in my judgment, is much less effective than the spontaneous expression of the speaker.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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