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n. (person) | 1. speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer | 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" |
| ~ alliterator | a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration. |
| ~ articulator | someone who pronounces words. |
| ~ caller-up, phoner, telephoner, caller | the person initiating a telephone call.; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone" |
| ~ babbler, chatterer, prater, spouter, chatterbox, magpie | an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker. |
| ~ conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer | someone skilled at conversation. |
| ~ dictator | a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine. |
| ~ drawler | someone who speaks with a drawl. |
| ~ driveller, jabberer | someone whose talk is trivial drivel. |
| ~ ejaculator | a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation. |
| ~ growler | a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl. |
| ~ asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner | someone who asks a question. |
| ~ lecturer | someone who lectures professionally. |
| ~ lisper | a speaker who lisps. |
| ~ mentioner | a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally. |
| ~ motormouth | someone who talks incessantly.; "I wish that motormouth would shut up" |
| ~ mumbler, murmurer, mutterer | a person who speaks softly and indistinctly. |
| ~ narrator, storyteller, teller | someone who tells a story. |
| ~ orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker | a person who delivers a speech or oration. |
| ~ prattler | someone who speaks in a childish way. |
| ~ ranter, raver | someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner. |
| ~ reciter | someone who recites from memory. |
| ~ native speaker | a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood.; "native speakers of French" |
| ~ stammerer, stutterer | someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions. |
| ~ stentor | a speaker with an unusually loud voice. |
| ~ talking head | a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen. |
| ~ venter | a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance. |
| ~ vociferator | a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest). |
| ~ voicer | a speaker who voices an opinion. |
| ~ wailer | a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries. |
| ~ whisperer | one who speaks in a whisper. |
| ~ witness, witnesser, informant | someone who sees an event and reports what happened. |
n. (artifact) | 2. loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance. |
| ~ bullhorn, loud-hailer, loud hailer | a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier. |
| ~ electro-acoustic transducer | a transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa. |
| ~ p.a., p.a. system, pa system, public address system, pa | an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas. |
| ~ intercom speaker, squawk box, squawker | the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system. |
| ~ subwoofer | a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies. |
| ~ tannoy | a loudspeaker. |
| ~ tweeter | a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds.; "the sound system had both tweeters and woofers" |
| ~ woofer | a loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds. |
n. (person) | 3. speaker | the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly.; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives" |
| ~ presiding officer | the leader of a group meeting. |
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