a person who speaks.

a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.

( usually initial capital letter ) the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, the British House of Commons, or other such legislative assembly.

Also called loudspeaker. an electroacoustic device, often housed in a cabinet, that is connected as a component in an audio system, its function being to make speech or music audible.

a book of selections for practice in declamation. ?

be or not be on speakers, British . speaking ( defs. 9

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after-dinner speaker , announcer , elocutionist , keynoter , lecturer , mouthpiece , orator , public speaker , rhetorician , speechmaker , spokesperson , mouth , spokesman , spokeswoman , declaimer , speechifier , chairman , demagogue , discourser , interlocutor , preacher , prolocutor , spellbinder , talker , utterer