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speaker

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"Talker or sound box"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈspikɚ/Part of speech nounSorted aeekprsStarts with SEnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance

Word origin

From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).

Used in a sentence

  • “There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.”
  • “As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.”
  • “She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.”

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