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say it: SPEE-kur
speaker is a noun meaning "someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly
“the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for speaker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.