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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous);
- Example: "the speaker at commencement"
- Example: "an utterer of useful maxims"
[syn: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]

2. electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance;
[syn: loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system]

3. the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly;
- Example: "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Speaker \Speak"er\, n. 1. One who speaks. Specifically: (a) 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. (b) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives. [1913 Webster] 2. A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

speaker n 1: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" [syn: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser] 2: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system] 3: the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "speaker": acoustical network, capacitor speaker, chair, chairman, chatterbox, coaxial speaker, cone, convener, conversationalist, crossover network, debater, declaimer, demagogue, diaphragm, dynamic speaker, earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker, full-fidelity speaker, haranguer, headphone, headset, herald, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, horn, jawsmith, keynoter, lecturer, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker, midrange speaker, monorange speaker, mouth, mouthpiece, moving-coil speaker, official spokesman, orator, panelist, patterer, permanent magnet speaker, presiding officer, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, public speaker, rabble-rouser, ranter, rapporteur, reporter, sayer, speaker system, speaker unit, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, spouter, talker, triaxial speaker, tub-thumper, tweeter, utterer, voice, voice coil, woofer
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

speaker 1. loudspeaker. 2. The person who is (assumed to be) talking. (1996-12-01)