keynote
kee noht
- n the principal theme in a speech or literary work
- n a fundamental or central idea
- n (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- v set the keynote of
Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection - v give the keynote address to (an audience)
- When asked if Jobs canceled because of illness, Dowling said, "Phil is giving the keynote because this is Apple's last year in the show, and it doesn't make sense for us to make a .
- The presumptive Democratic nominee's wife will give the keynote address at the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council Gala Thursday night at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
- From his very first moment in the national spotlighthis keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2004Barack Obama has attached himself to the notion of audacity.