HyperDic: keynote_speech

English > 1 sense of the expression *keynote speech*:
NOUN	communication	keynote speech, keynote address	a speech setting forth the keynote

English > *keynote speech*: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
Meaning	A speech setting forth the keynote.
Synonym	keynote address
Parts	keynote	The principal theme in a speech or literary work
Broader	oratory	addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)