speaker – English noun declension

English noun forms of speaker

Noun: speaker
Singularspeaker
Pluralspeakers

Sample Sentences

  • There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
  • This title is derived from the first verse of the book (1.1), which is a heading or colophon informing the reader who this Qoheleth was: he was the author of the book, or at least the speaker of the words which are contained in it ... [1989, R. Norman Whybray, Ecclesiastes, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 15:]
  • 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. [2011 October 28, Adam Thirlwell, “The Joyful Side of Translation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:]
  • Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian. [2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022:]
  • She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
  • you're on speaker
  • I'm gonna put you on speaker now
  • Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer
  • hired speaker;   motivational speaker
  • The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
  • The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ... [2002, Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 242:]
  • 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".
  • With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration. [1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 18:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *spregʰ-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *spreg-?
4. Proto-Germanic *sprekaną
5. Proto-West Germanic *sprekan
6. Old English sprecan
7. Old English specan
8. Middle English speken
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
10. Proto-Italic *-āzios
11. Latin -āriusnom.
12. Latin -āriusbor.
13. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
14. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
15. Old English -ere
16. Middle English -ere
17. Middle English spekere, speker
18. English speaker
19. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'speker', Old English Nouns 'speca', Dutch Nouns 'spreker', German Nouns 'Sprecher'.

Verbs referencing "speaker"

French Nouns speaker, Italian Nouns speaker, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns speaker, Romanian Nouns speaker, Spanish Nouns speaker, German Nouns Sprecher, Russian Nouns спикер, Finnish Nouns spiikkeri, Romanian Nouns spicher, Ukrainian Nouns спікер.