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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {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 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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

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

















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