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speaker

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of speaker

chair, chairman, chairperson, moderator, president, presider, prolocutor
Words 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, spokesman, spokesperson
Words 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, orator
Words Related to speaker

rhetorician, spellbinder

declaimer, spouter

spieler

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