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 of speaker chairman, chairperson, moderator, president, presider, prolocutor, chairWords Related to speaker 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 of speaker mouth, mouthpiece, point man, point person, prophet, spokesperson, spokesmanWords Related to speaker 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 of speaker lecturer, oratorWords Related to speaker rhetorician, spellbinder; declaimer, spouter; spieler