Meanings
plural loudspeakers · alternative loud speaker
- An electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound.
Unintelligible announcements on station loudspeakers are both irritating and confusing.
1953 August, “Station Announcements”, in Railway Magazine, page 5061 more example
Beijing itself signified the transformation. When I visited in 1979 it was a grim city where every pedestrian dressed in a drab gray Mao jacket and every street corner had a loudspeaker repeating the sayings of Mao. The city was desolate and joyless.
2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, page 221Synonyms: speaker
- Any such transducer that is loud, as opposed to quiet ones such as those found in headphones.
- An encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices and usually other electrical equipment such as a driver.
Synonyms: speaker enclosure, loudspeaker cabinet, loudspeaker enclosure
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound.
nounAn encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices and usually other electrical equipment such as a driver.
More synonyms by meaning
nounelectro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱlew-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱlutós
- Proto-Germanic*hlūdaz
- Proto-West Germanic*hlūd
- Old Englishhlūd
- Middle Englishloude, loud, lud
- Englishloud
- Proto-Indo-European*spregʰ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*spreg-?
- Proto-Germanic*sprekaną
- Proto-West Germanic*sprekan
- Old Englishsprecan
- Old Englishspecan
- Middle Englishspeken
- Middle Englishspekere, speker
- Englishspeaker
- Englishloudspeaker
Translations
Arabic مُحَوِّل طَاقَة, مِجْهَار
- مُحَوِّل طَاقَة (muḥawwil ṭāqa)transducer
- مِجْهَار (mijhār)transducer
- سَمَاعَة (samāʕa)transducer
Bulgarian тонколо́на, високоговори́тел
- тонколо́на (tonkolóna)encasing
- високоговори́тел (visokogovorítel)transducer
Catalan altaveu
- altaveutransducer
Chinese Mandarin 擴音器 /扩音器, 揚聲器 /扬声器
- 擴音器 /扩音器 (kuòyīnqì)transducer
- 揚聲器 /扬声器 (yángshēngqì)transducer
- 喇叭 (lǎba)transducer
- 擴音機 /扩音机 (kuòyīnjī)transducer
Czech reproduktor
- reproduktortransducer
Danish højtaler, højtaler
- højtalerencasing
- højtalertransducer
- højttalertransducer
Dutch luidspreker
- luidsprekertransducer
Esperanto laŭtparolilo
- laŭtparolilotransducer
Estonian kõlar, valjuhääldi
- kõlarencasing
- valjuhäälditransducer
Finnish kaiutin, kajari
- kaiutinencasing
- kajariencasing
- kovaääninenencasing
- ämyriencasing
- kaiutintransducer
- kajaritransducer
- kovaääninentransducer
- ämyritransducer
French enceinte acoustique, haut-parleur
- enceinte acoustiqueencasing
- haut-parleurtransducer
German Lautsprecherbox, Box
- Lautsprecherboxencasing
- Boxencasing
- Lautsprechertransducer
Greek μεγάφωνο
- μεγάφωνο (megáfono)transducer
Hebrew רַמְקוֹל
- רַמְקוֹל (ramkol)transducer
Hindi लाउडस्पीकर
- लाउडस्पीकर (lāuḍaspīkar)transducer
Hungarian hangfal, hangszóró
- hangfalencasing
- hangszórótransducer
Icelandic hátalari
- hátalaritransducer
Indonesian pengeras suara, penyuara
- pengeras suaratransducer
- penyuaratransducer
- sepikertransducer
Irish callaire
- callairetransducer
Italian altoparlante
- altoparlantetransducer
Japanese 拡声器, 拡声機
- 拡声器 (kakuseiki)transducer
- 拡声機 (kakuseiki)transducer
- ラウドスピーカー (raudosupīkā)transducer
- スピーカー (supīkā)transducer
Korean 확성기, 스피커
- 확성기 (hwakseonggi)transducer
- 스피커 (seupikeo)transducer
- 경음기 (gyeong'eumgi)transducer
Latvian skaļrunis, reproduktors
- skaļrunistransducer
- reproduktorstransducer
Lithuanian garsiakalbis
- garsiakalbistransducer
Malay pembesar suara
- pembesar suaratransducer
Māori tukuoro
- tukuorotransducer
Norwegian Bokmål høgtaler, høytaler
- høgtalerencasing
- høytalerencasing
- høyttalerencasing
- høgtalertransducer
- høytalertransducer
- høyttalertransducer
Polish głośnik, głośnik
- głośnikencasing
- głośniktransducer
Portuguese caixa de som, alto-falante
- caixa de somencasing
- alto-falantetransducer
- altifalantetransducer
- colunatransducer
Romanian difuzor
- difuzortransducer
Russian громкоговори́тель, громкоговори́тель
- громкоговори́тель (gromkogovorítelʹ)encasing
- громкоговори́тель (gromkogovorítelʹ)transducer
- репроду́ктор (reprodúktor)transducer
- дина́мик (dinámik)transducer
- спи́кер (spíker)transducer
Slovak reproduktor
- reproduktortransducer
Spanish caja acústica, altavoz
- caja acústicaencasing
- altavoztransducer
- altoparlantetransducer
- magnavoztransducer
Swedish högtalare, högtalare
- högtalareencasing
- högtalaretransducer
Tagalog daktinig, palakas-tinig
- daktinigtransducer
- palakas-tinigtransducer
- altabostransducer
Tamil ஒலிபெருக்கி
- ஒலிபெருக்கி (oliperukki)transducer
Thai ลำโพง
- ลำโพง (lam-poong)transducer
Turkish hoparlör
- hoparlörtransducer
Ukrainian гучномо́вець, спі́кер
- гучномо́вець (hučnomóvecʹ)transducer
- спі́кер (spíker)transducer
- дина́мік (dynámik)transducer
Vietnamese loa, máy phát thanh
- loatransducer
- máy phát thanhtransducer
Yiddish הויכרעדער, הילכער
- הויכרעדער (hoykhreder)transducer
- הילכער (hilkher)transducer
- דינאַמיק (dinamik)transducer
Cite this entry
loudspeaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loudspeaker
“loudspeaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loudspeaker. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “loudspeaker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loudspeaker.
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