Definitions
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- noun A female
speaker - noun A female who is
speaking - noun A female native English speaker.
- noun politics The females chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives
- noun A female making a
speech to an audience
Etymologies
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Examples
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The speakeress rattled on in this strain until a late hour, saying nothing new, nothing noble, not a word that would give one maid or mother a purer or better thought.
The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01 Harper, Ida H 1899
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The speakeress rattled on in this strain until a late hour, saying nothing new, nothing noble, not a word that would give one maid or mother a purer or better thought.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891
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Why then, madam, I will take it upon me to be the speakeress, as I was amongst the foremost in attending the distressed fair.
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