speaker
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
speaker/ˈspiːkə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who speaks, especially at a formal occasion.
- 2 (Speaker) the presiding officer in a legislative assembly, especially the House of Commons.
- 3 short for loudspeaker.
– derivatives
speakership noun.
speakership noun.
'speaker' also found in these Oxford entries:
Algonquian
- Athabaskan
- autocue
- Balt
- barrack
- bi-wiring
- cab
- cabinet
- cisatlantic
- closure
- combo
- come
- direct speech
- doodah
- doohickey
- echo
- fair
- fulsome
- heckle
- I
- idiot board
- Indo-European
- infer
- lectern
- lip-read
- Mac
- mace
- me
- mine
- my
- myself
- name
- native speaker
- non-native
- one
- oral history
- orator
- our
- ours
- ourselves
- pardon
- performative
- person
- prompt
- prophet
- reported speech
- rhetorician
- sharp
- sirrah
- so-and-so
