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speaker

noun
/ˈspikɚ/US/ˈspiːkə/UK

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker

Definitions

  1. One who speaks.

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

  2. Loudspeaker.

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

  3. Speakerphone.

    • you're on speaker
    • I'm gonna put you on speaker now
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of…

      The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.

    2. One who makes a speech to an audience.

      • Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer
      • hired speaker;   motivational speaker
      • The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.

    3. A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.

    4. The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.

    5. A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (compare octave key on other…

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

    6. A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset…

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

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

    7. Alternative letter-case form of speaker (“presiding officer of a legislative body”).

    8. A surname

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Derived

doublespeaker, ear speaker, forespeaker, forthspeaker, gainspeaker, guest speaker, heritage speaker, interspeaker, intraspeaker, lawspeaker, lay speaker, multispeaker, native-speaker, native speaker, non-native speaker, non-native-speaker, nonspeaker, PA speaker, PC speaker, plenary speaker, public speaker, remote speaker, semispeaker, smart speaker, speaker base, speaker enclosure, speakeress, speakerless, speakerlike, speakerly, speaker point, speaker pro tempore, speakership, tongues-speaker, tongues speaker

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at speaker. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at speaker. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at speaker

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA