speaker vs native speaker

native speaker vs speaker

speaker and native speaker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
speaker	Yes	No	No	No
native speaker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, native speaker is a hyponym of speaker; that is, native speaker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speaker:

speaker: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
native speaker: a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood

Other hyponyms of speaker include alliterator, caller-up, caller, phoner, telephoner, babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter, conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer, dictator, drawler, driveller, jabberer, ejaculator, growler, asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, motormouth, mumbler, murmurer, mutterer, narrator, storyteller, teller, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker, prattler, ranter, raver, reciter, stammerer, stutterer, stentor, talking head, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, informant, witness, witnesser.

speaker (noun)	native speaker (noun)
electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance	a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)

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