Spoken

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spoken \Spo"ken\ (sp[=o]"k'n), a. [p. p. of {Speak}.]
     1. Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a
        spoken narrative; the spoken word.
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     2. Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; --


        often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
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              Methinks you 're better spoken.       --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p.
     {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to
     OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG.
     sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[=u]rj to crackle, to
     thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.]
     1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to
        express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so
        obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
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              Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.
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              Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.
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     2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
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              That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,
              as the tradesmen speak.               --Boyle.
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              An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a
              knave is not.                         --Shak.
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              During the century and a half which followed the
              Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English
              history.                              --Macaulay.
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     3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a
        public assembly formally.
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              Many of the nobility made themselves popular by
              speaking in Parliament against those things which
              were most grateful to his majesty.    --Clarendon.
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     4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
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              Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to
              him from the Leman Lake.              --Addison.
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     5. To give sound; to sound.
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              Make all our trumpets speak.          --Shak.
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     6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by
        utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
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              Thine eye begins to speak.            --Shak.
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     {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of.
        --Robynson (More's Utopia).
  
     {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to
        speak unreservedly.
  
     {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to.
  
     {To speak with}, to converse with. "Would you speak with me?"
        --Shak.
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     Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;
          pronounce; utter.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  speak
       v 1: express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This
            depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: {talk}, {utter},
             {mouth}, {verbalize}, {verbalise}]
       2: exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business";
          "Actions talk louder than words" [syn: {talk}]
       3: use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't
          speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [syn: {talk}]
       4: give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of
          trustees" [syn: {address}]
       5: make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"
       [also: {spoken}, {spoke}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spoken
       adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by
              speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken
              message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken
              person"; "sharp-spoken" [ant: {written}]
       2: using the voice in speech; "vocal communication"; "either
          silent or vocal prayers"; "vocal noises" [syn: {vocal}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spoken
       See {speak}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "spoken":
     articulate, articulated, colloquial, common, conversational,
     enunciated, everyday, familiar, informal, lingual, linguistic,
     nonstandard, nuncupative, oral, parol, pronounced, said, sonant,
     sounded, speak, speech, substandard, traditional, uneducated,
     unliterary, unstudied, unwritten, uttered, verbal, vernacular,
     viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word-of-mouth