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speaker (spēkər)

noun

  1. a person who speaks; esp.,
    1. a person who makes a speech or speeches in public
    2. the officer presiding over any of various lawmaking bodies
    3. ☆ the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives
  2. ☆ a book of selections for use as exercises in declamation
    1. a device consisting of a magnet and a diaphragm of paper, plastic, etc., for converting electrical signals to sound waves that are radiated into the air
    2. a boxlike enclosure holding one or more such devices

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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