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Speakerless vs Speakeress - What's the difference?

speakerless | speakeress |

As an adjective speakerless

is without a speaker (narrator).

As a noun speakeress is

a female speaker.

speakerless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a speaker (narrator).
  • * 1984 , Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory
    • ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself...
  • * 1996 , Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology
    • ...this manipulation is motivated, intentional, the result of agency, and this agency cannot be ascribed to speakerless sentences in and of themselves.
  • Without a speaker (orator).
  • * 1978 , Allan Peskin, Garfield: a biography
    • One distraught party chairman from Brazil, Maryland, faced with the prospect of a speakerless rally, prayed, "FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND US INGERSOLL,"...
  • * 2005 , Harold W Donahue, The Toastmaster's Manual
    • How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet.
  • Without speakers.
    • a speakerless audio system

    speakeress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A female speaker
  • A female who is speaking
  • A female native English speaker.
  • (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
  • A female making a speech to an audience

    • Usage notes

    Used much less than formerly. For example, in the US, a female Speaker of the House of Representatives would be addressed as "Madame Speaker".

    External links

    * Link to web page on Speaker of the House of Commons (3)