speaker

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 ...

1989, R. Norman Whybray, Ecclesiastes, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 15:

As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.

2011 October 28, Adam Thirlwell, “The Joyful Side of Translation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.

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

you're on speaker

I'm gonna put you on speaker now

House of Representatives
House of Representatives

(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.

Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer

hired speaker;   motivational speaker

The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.

en:speechmaker, orator, presenter, or similar

en:book of passages to aid in speechwriting

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

The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ...

2002, Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 242:

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

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".

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

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

Alternative form: spyeker

With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration.

1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 18:

en:pole or spike to aid in carrying a load on one_s shoulders

(archaic) A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect.

խոսնակ

politics: the chair or presiding officer

puhuja

linguistics: producer of a given utterance

From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).


speaker

fr-noun

speaker m (plural speakers, feminine speakerine)


speaker

speaker (in parliament, chiefly concering UK or US)

speakeren (definite singular)
speakere (indefinite plural)
speakerne (definite plural)


speaker

speakeri (plural)
speaker (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
speakerul (accusative definite nominative singular)
speakeri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
speakerii (accusative definite nominative plural)
speaker (indefinite singular)
speakerului (definite singular)
speakeri (indefinite singular)
speakerilor (definite plural)
speakerule (singular vocative)
speakerilor (vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English speaker.


speaker

es-noun

speaker m or f by sense (plural speakers or speaker)


speaker

a narrator (person who delivers a voice over, in a documentary or the like – compare berättarröst)

speaker (indefinite nominative singular)
speakers (genitive indefinite singular)
speakern (definite nominative singular)
speakerns (definite genitive singular)
speakrar (indefinite nominative plural)
speakrars (genitive indefinite plural)
speakrarna (definite nominative plural)
speakrarnas (definite genitive plural)