Definition of speaker

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Speaker (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker..

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Bema :: Bema (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
Pulpit :: Pulpit (n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker..
Here :: Here (adv.) In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.
Apophasis :: Apophasis (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.].
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..
Hum :: Hum (interj.) An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc..
Discourser :: Discourser (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Frothy :: Frothy (superl.) Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue..
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption..
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker..
Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..
Platform :: Platform (n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place..
Center :: Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left..
Plausible :: Plausible (a.) Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker..
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Hither :: Hither (adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither..
Foreman :: Foreman (n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker..
Fix :: Fix (v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker..
Dialogist :: Dialogist (n.) A speaker in a dialogue.
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker..
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