speaker
/ˈspikɚ/ noun A2- One who speaks. · There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
- Loudspeaker. · She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
- Speakerphone. · you're on speaker· I'm gonna put you on speaker now
- The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
- One who makes a speech to an audience. · Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer· hired speaker; motivational speaker
- A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
- The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
- The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
Plural speakers
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This time Danglars had double reason to understand, for if the word and gesture had not explained the speaker’s meaning, it was clearly expressed by the man walking behind him, who pushed him so rudely that he struck against the guide.
Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, and on the probability of a rainy season, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point being driven home by the slapping of a brawny hand upon the speaker’s knee.
Noirtier, who never cared for the opinion of his son on any subject, had always omitted to explain the affair to Villefort, so that he had all his life entertained the belief that General de Quesnel, or the Baron d’Épinay, as he was alternately styled, according as the speaker wished to identify him by his own family name, or by the title which had been conferred on him, fell the victim of assassination, and not that he was killed fairly in a duel.
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