Speaker
['spiːkə] or ['spikɚ]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; 'the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives'.
Editor: Sallust--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who speaks.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Edited by Ethelred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Discourser, orator, spokesman, prolocutor.[2]. Chairman, presiding officer.
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- Davy was an eloquent, enthusiastic, forceful speaker. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I started, but was only discomposed a moment; I knew the voice and speaker. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When the Demarch ended, he raised his head with a bitter smile on his pallid face, and flung out his hand threateningly towards the speaker. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I muttered between my teeth: you are no bad speaker, Zéliewhen you begin. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- With a footstep as soft and gentle as the voice, the speaker tripped away. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Hence they generally study oratory, the best speaker having the most influence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He entered the House of Commons and took the Speaker's chair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every variation in the speaker's voice is repeated in the vibrations of the metal disk and hence in the minute motion of the pointer and in the consequent record on the cylinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The speaker gave an arch little nod. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Very likely, my dear; I never was a good speaker. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The speaker was a chieftain and he was giving orders to four of his warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Yes; Caliphronas is a good English speaker, but he makes mistakes in proper names. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As a speaker at charitable meetings the like of him for drawing your tears and your money was not easy to find. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The face of the tall straight woman turned slowly and as if drugged to this new speaker. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It is not until the speakers and the publicity agents have actually begun to animate it that the country sees what the party is about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Rawlins, who proved himself one of the ablest speakers in the State. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It must have been a pretty effective barrier between the Aryan speakers and the people in north-eastern Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the study of politics I should say unhesitatingly that it is more important to know what socialist leaders, stump speakers, pamphleteers, think Marx meant, than to know what he said. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This gallery swarmed with people eager for a scene, ready to applaud or shout down the speakers below. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is constantly done by good speakers, even when they anticipate no answer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Gradually these Keltic-speakers made their way to the Atlantic, and all that now remains of the Iberians is mixed into the Keltic population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its speakers were in or past the Neolithic stage of civilization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On every side of the circular area were little tribunes, or stations, for the use of speakers and auctioneers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He prepared his lectures with the greatest care, and he delivered them with that attention to dramatic effect which is instinctive in all really great speakers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It does not affect the clear evidence of a very long and very ancient prehistoric separation of the speakers of these three diverse groups of tongues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The abler speakers were obliged to play to the gallery, and take a sentimental and sensational line. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Hamitic speakers to-day, like the Semitic speakers, are mainly of the Mediterranean Caucasian race. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Terrence