speaker

noun10

1. •
   a person who is saying something out loud

   • There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
2. •
   One who makes a speech to an audience.

   • The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
3. •
   The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
4. •
   The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.

   • Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
5. •
   Loudspeaker.

   • She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
6. •
   The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
7. •
   Speakerphone.

   • you're on speaker
   • I'm gonna put you on speaker now
8. •
   (US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
9. •
   A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (compare octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
10. •
    (no longer used) A wooden pole or spike used by hedgers to carry loads on their shoulders. Possibly Dorset dialect.

    • With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration. — 1878