keynote speaker

noun

: one who delivers a keynote address

Examples of keynote speaker in a Sentence

Senator Williams was the keynote speaker at the convention.
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The friend and colleague, Renfrew County, Ontario, Paramedic Chief Mike Nolan, saw a huge plume of black smoke rise from the center of the runway and immediately texted Carlson, the keynote speaker at the conference in Toronto this week. Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025 But the economic demands of the march and its keynote speaker Martin Luther King, Jr. are still not well known, even among labor activists, Twarog said. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025 The keynote speaker will be Kent Chamberlin, past chairman and a professor emeritus in the University of New Hampshire’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025 Tony Thurmond, California State superintendent of public instruction, is the keynote speaker. Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for keynote speaker 

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of keynote speaker was in 1896

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“Keynote speaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keynote%20speaker. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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