English Dictionary

speaker

/ˈspikɚ/

noun

One who speaks. / Loudspeaker. / Speakerphone. / (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.

The speaker addressed the audience with an inspiring speech.

意味（1）

One who speaks.

This title is derived from the first verse of the book (1.1), which is a heading or colophon informing the reader who this Qoheleth was: he was the author of the book, or at least the speaker of the words which are contained in it ...

意味（2）

Loudspeaker.

She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.

意味（3）

Speakerphone.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

One who makes a speech to an audience.

The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.

意味（6）

(US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.

意味（7）

(especially in linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.

意味（8）

(poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.

Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when I took the one less traveled by is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's The Road Not Taken.

意味（9）

(music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.