| speakeasy | pos>n. An establishment where alcoholic beverages were sold and drunk illegally, especially one operating during the prohibition era in the U.S. (1920-1932); a tavern or nightclub illegally selling alcoholic beverages. [ PJC ] |
| Speaker | n. 1. One who speaks. Specifically: (a) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. (b) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A book of selections for declamation. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Speakership | n. The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 事 | [じ, ji] (n) (1) thing; matter; (2) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) work; business; affair; (5) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) (6) (See 事・ごと・1) nominalizing suffix; (7) (See 事・ごと・2) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (P) #353 [Add to Longdo] |
| 彼 | [かれ, kare] (n) (1) (uk) (See 何れ・1, 此れ・1, 其れ・1) that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly); (2) that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors); (3) (arch) over there; (4) (あれ only) (col) down there (i.e. one's genitals); (5) (あれ only) (col) period; menses; (int) (6) hey (expression of surprise or suspicion); eh?; (n) (7) that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time); (P) #451 [Add to Longdo] |
| 共 | [ども, domo] (suf) (1) (hum) first-person plural (or singular); (2) second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to); (P) #1,831 [Add to Longdo] |
| け;っけ | [ke ; kke] (prt) particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information #1,868 [Add to Longdo] |
| 議長 | [ぎちょう, gichou] (n) chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup); (P) #2,953 [Add to Longdo] |
| ああ | [aa] (adv) (See 斯う, 然う, 如何・どう) like that (used for something or someone distant from both speaker and listener); so; (P) #3,331 [Add to Longdo] |
| こんな | [konna] (adj-pn) (See あんな, そんな, どんな・1) such (about something; someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this; (P) #4,123 [Add to Longdo] |
| 彼方 | [かなた(P);あなた, kanata (P); anata] (pn, adj-no) (1) (uk) (See 何方・どちら・1, 此方・こちら・1, 其方・1) that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder; (2) that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that; (pn) (3) (あちら is pol.) that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener); (4) there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation); (P) #9,485 [Add to Longdo] |
| 話者 | [わしゃ, washa] (n) narrator; speaker #9,824 [Add to Longdo] |
| ネイティブ;ネイティヴ;ネーティブ | [neiteibu ; neiteivu ; ne-teibu] (adj-na, n) (1) native; (2) (abbr) (See ネーティブスピーカー) native speaker (of English) #10,030 [Add to Longdo] |
