Narrator vs. Speaker — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Narrator and Speaker
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Narrator
A person who narrates, such as one who provides off-screen commentary in a documentary.
Speaker
One who speaks.
Narrator
A character in literature, especially a novel or short story, who relates the plot and sometimes plays a role in the story.
Speaker
A spokesperson.
Narrator
A character in a fictional movie, play, or similar production who comments on what is happening, often through voice-over.
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Speaker
One who delivers a public speech.
Narrator
One who narrates or tells stories.
Speaker
Often Speaker The presiding officer of a legislative assembly.
Narrator
(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
Speaker
The person, sometimes the actual writer but often an assumed character, who is imagined as the source of the words or ideas expressed in a poem.
Narrator
The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.
Speaker
A device that converts electric signals to audible sound.
Narrator
One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
Speaker
One who speaks.
There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
Narrator
Someone who tells a story
Speaker
Loudspeaker.
She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
Speaker
Speakerphone.
Speaker
(politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
Speaker
One who makes a speech to an audience.
The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
Speaker
(US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
Speaker
The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
Speaker
(poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
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".
Speaker
(music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
Speaker
One who speaks.
Speaker
A book of selections for declamation.
Speaker
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
Speaker
Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
Speaker
The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly;
The leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives
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