1. speaker(n = noun.person) talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer - 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"
is a kind of articulator
has particulars: alliterator, caller, caller-up, phoner, telephoner, babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter, conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer, dictator, drawler, driveller, jabberer, ejaculator, growler, asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, motormouth, mumbler, murmurer, mutterer, narrator, storyteller, teller, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker, prattler, ranter, raver, reciter, native speaker, stammerer, stutterer, stentor, talking head, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, informant, witness, witnesser
Derived form verb speak1
2. speaker(n = noun.artifact) loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit - electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance;
is a kind of electro-acoustic transducer
is a part of p.a., p.a. system, pa, pa system, public address system
has particulars: bullhorn, loud-hailer, loud hailer, intercom speaker, squawk box, squawker, subwoofer, tannoy, tweeter, woofer
3. speaker(n = noun.person) - the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
is a kind of presiding officer
Derived form noun speakership1
1. One who speaks. [1913 Webster]
2. A book of selections for declamation. [1913 Webster]
speaker, n.
1 a person who speaks, esp. in public.
2 a person who speaks a specified language (esp. in comb.: a French-speaker).
3 (Speaker) the presiding officer in a legislative assembly, esp. the House of Commons.
4 = LOUDSPEAKER.
Derivative:
speakership n.
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.
N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.
N interpreter, expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer, demonstrator, scholiast, commentator, annotator, metaphrast, paraphrast, glossarist, prolocutor, spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece, dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman, oneirocritic, (Edipus, oracle).
intercom speaker, native speaker, public speaker, salutatory speaker, speaker identification, speaker system, speaker unit, valedictory speaker