speaker

speaker

noun

Definition of SPEAKER

1

a person in charge of a meeting <the speaker announced that it was time for the club to move on to another matter>

Synonyms chairman, chairperson, moderator, president, presider, prolocutor, speaker

Related Words chairwoman; cochair, cochairman, cochairperson, cochairwoman, copresident

2

a person who speaks for another or for a group <unofficially chose a speaker to broach the subject with the supervisor of the department>

Synonyms mouth, mouthpiece, point man, point person, prophet, speaker, spokesman

Related Words spokesmodel, spokeswoman; front, promoter, shill; communicator, sayer, talker; agent, ambassador, delegate, emissary, envoy, representative

3

a person who makes usually formal public speeches <the after-dinner speaker was a career diplomat who regaled us with humorous anecdotes from his travels abroad>

Synonyms lecturer, speaker

Related Words rhetorician, spellbinder; declaimer, spouter; spieler