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public speaker
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public speaking
n.
The act, art, or process of making effective speeches before an audience.

public speaker n.
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Noun1.public speaker - a person who delivers a speech or orationpublic speaker - a person who delivers a speech or oration
eulogist, panegyrist - an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics
elocutionist - a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery
haranguer - a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech
speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - 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"
spellbinder - an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
tub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker


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Delivering a public or even after-dinner speech requires the inclusion - indeed, incorporation - of individual ingredients in the address, some of which did not appear to be apparent in the featured programmes.
A MAN who attacked former Scotland and Rangers goalkeeper Andy Goram following an after-dinner speech has been fined pounds 570.
EQUALITY watchdog chairman Trevor Phillips apologised for making a tasteless joke about the Queen Mother during an after-dinner speech.
 
 
 
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