Meaning of speaker in English

speaker

noun [ C ]

/ˈspiː.kər/ us

/ˈspiː.kɚ/

speaker noun [C] (FORMAL TALK)

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a person who gives a speech at a public event:

public speaker He is a clever man, and an entertaining and engaging public speaker.

guest speaker Please join with me in thanking our guest speaker tonight.

keynote speaker The Democrats have chosen the Texas state treasurer as the keynote (= most important) speaker at their convention.

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In his opening salvo the speaker fiercely attacked the government's record on healthcare.
She is a confident and self-possessed public speaker.
The speaker sidestepped the question by saying that it would take him too long to answer it.
The speaker was applauded as he tore apart the prime minister's policies.
A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.

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speaker noun [C] (LANGUAGE)

someone who speaks a particular language:

a French speaker

fluent speaker A fluent Spanish speaker, she has translated several of his books.

non-English speakers

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speaker noun [C] (ELECTRICAL)

the part of a radio, television, or computer, or of a piece of electrical equipment for playing recorded sound, through which the sound is played. A speaker can be part of the radio, etc. or be separate from it:

There's no sound coming out of the right-hand speaker.

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on speaker

using the function of a phone, computer, etc. that allows other people to hear the person you are talking to :

He called his attorney and put the phone on speaker.

You're on speaker, so be careful what you say.

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Speaker

noun [ C ]

/ˈspiː.kər/ us

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the person who controls the way in which business is done in an organization which makes laws:

He served for eight years as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

[ as form of address ] Mr Speaker, my honourable friend has failed to consider the consequences of his proposal.

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(Definition of speaker from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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speaker

noun [ C ]

speaker noun [C] (ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT)

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/ˈspi·kər/

a piece of electrical equipment through which recorded or broadcast sound can be heard:

We bought new speakers for our stereo system.

speaker noun [C] (PERSON WHO KNOWS A LANGUAGE)

/ˈspi·kər/

someone who speaks a particular language:

a French/Chinese speaker

speaker noun [C] (PERSON WHO GIVES FORMAL TALK)

/ˈspi·kər/

a person who gives a speech at a public event:

There will be three speakers at the graduation ceremony.

She’s not a good public speaker.

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A speaker is also the person who controls the way in which business is done in an organization which makes laws, such as the US House of Representatives:

the Speaker of the House

speaker noun [C] (PERSON SPEAKING)

us/ˈspi·kər/

a person who speaks or is speaking:

Will the speaker please identify herself?

literature us/ˈspi·kər/

The speaker in a work of literature is the person who is imagined to be saying the written words, or the character who speaks a monologue (= a long speech)

(Definition of speaker from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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So speakers may merge in minimal pair lists but still maintain a phonetic distinction in conversational style.

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As speakers and listeners use particular lexical, semantic, and syntactic representations, some of these representations become bound into routines.

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As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.

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Participants were told that they would hear a set of texts presented over two speakers.

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On teaching the standard variety to speakers of dialectal or sociolectal varieties.

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Because most nonnative speakers will have a noticeable accent with or without instruction, should pronunciation be taught?

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The remaining keynote speakers also provided plenty of food-for-thought, though they tended to remain more tightly focused on the particular rather than the general.

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Thus, although speakers make choices as individuals, they typically behave as group members in that most make the same or similar linguistic choices.

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The main categories (informative utterances, simple directives and directives with description) reached 40% of the total number of the utterances produced by the speakers.

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It is of course not always clear how a sequence of words produced by a very inexperienced speaker should to be divided into utterances.

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He wants to save the language, and make its speakers literate in their own tongue before it is too late.

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Perhaps other interviewees, mixed with rueful chuckles of those who simply identify with the speaker's disenchantment.

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However, the speaker's voice and the other person's voice do not merge.

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For any given speaker role and utterance context, certain acts are more likely to be performed than others.

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Using a single speaker placed beside the instrument is one solution which solves the 'disembodied instrument' issue.

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Collocations with speaker

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adult speaker

We also extracted offers in the guise of repairs to a child's term made by the adult speaker.

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after-dinner speaker

He certainly made the kind of speech for which, as a professional after-dinner speaker, he might have been paid a high fee.

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bilingual speaker

In this case, the manager consulted with a bilingual speaker before printing out the final version of the notice.

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Translations of speaker

in Chinese (Traditional)

演講, 發言者, 演講者…

Meaning of speaker in English

speaker noun [C] (FORMAL TALK)

speaker noun [C] (LANGUAGE)

speaker noun [C] (ELECTRICAL)

speaker | American Dictionary

speaker noun [C] (ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT)

speaker noun [C] (PERSON WHO KNOWS A LANGUAGE)

speaker noun [C] (PERSON WHO GIVES FORMAL TALK)

speaker noun [C] (PERSON SPEAKING)

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