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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any creature or machine that talks.
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noun
A talk show
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: media
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noun
A talk-show host.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: media
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noun
An all-talk radio station.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: media
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noun
A popular topic of conversation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: media
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noun
A talking point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
Mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A table talker or shelf-talker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, marketing
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noun
An augmentative and alternative communication device.
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noun
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: speaker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: articulator
Narrower terms: alliterator, caller, caller-up, phoner, telephoner, chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, magpie, spouter, conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer, dictator, drawler, driveller, jabberer, ejaculator, growler, inquirer, enquirer, questioner, querier, asker, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, motormouth, mutterer, mumbler, murmurer, narrator, storyteller, teller, orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier, prattler, ranter, raver, reciter, native speaker, stammerer, stutterer, stentor, talking head, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, witness, witnesser, informant
History
From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
