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Speaker

noun

Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous). Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer. "An utterer of useful maxims"

Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance. Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit.

The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly.

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... the half-starved multitude demanded that they should be led against the enemy. But before doing so, the chiefs decided to apprise the leader of the Turks of their intention, and for this purpose chose Peter the Hermit as their boldest and ablest speaker. ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality. French. • Charles Morris

... The most powerful speaker I ever heard was Charles Bradlaugh. I attended one of his lectures one Sunday afternoon in a large auditorium in Portsmouth. I shall never forget that wonderful voice as it thrilled an audience of four thousand people. Bradlaugh ...

— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... imagine the piquant interest of the scene—the polite matinee audience, the row of erudite Frenchmen sitting behind the speaker, the table, the shaded lamp, and the professor himself, a slender, dark gentleman with a fine, grave face, pointed black beard, and penetrating eyes—suggesting vaguely a prestidigitateur—trying, by sheer ...

— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl

... ears; and I, like all the rest of the world, will willingly exchange and give up some degree of rough sense, for a good degree of pleasing sound. I will freely and truly own to you, without either vanity or false modesty, that whatever reputation I have acquired as a speaker, is more owing to my constant attention to my diction than to my matter, which was necessarily just the same as other people's. When you come into parliament, your reputation as a speaker will depend much more upon your words, and your periods than upon the subject. The same ...

— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various

... press in that country one had but to say of any doubtful thing, 'Seen it in print,' to stop all argument. If there were any further doubt he had only to say that he had read it either in the Tribune or the Bible, and couldn't remember which. Then it was a mere question of veracity in the speaker. Books and other reading were carefully put away for an improbable time ...

— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller

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