Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Talker or sound box”7 letters
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