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witness vs speaker

speaker vs witness

witness and speaker both are nouns.

witness is a verb but speaker is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
witness Yes No Yes No
speaker Yes No No No
As nouns, speaker is a hypernym of witness; that is, speaker is a word with a broader meaning than witness:
  • witness: someone who sees an event and reports what happened
  • speaker: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
Other hypernyms of witness include beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer.
witness (noun) speaker (noun)
testimony by word or deed to your religious faith electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
someone who sees an event and reports what happened someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
witness (verb) speaker (verb)
be a witness to
perceive or be contemporaneous with
Difference between witness and speaker

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