Speaker | |
1. n. The Speaker of the House of Commons | |
2. n. One who speaks. | |
A native English speaker. | |
3. n. Loudspeaker. | |
4. n. Speakerphone. | |
5. n. (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. | |
6. n. One who makes a speech to an audience. | |
The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale. | |
7. n. (US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches. | |
8. n. (linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether actually spoken or not. | |
9. n. (music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow. | |