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TALK OF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discuss or mention
Example:
They spoke of many things
Synonyms:
talk about; talk of
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "talk of" is one way to...):
mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "talk of"):
discuss; hash out; talk over (speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion)
blaspheme (speak of in an irreverent or impious manner)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
She loves to talk of it as well as I do to listen.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Their conduct has been such,” replied Elizabeth, “as neither you, nor I, nor anybody can ever forget. It is useless to talk of it.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Despair! Who dared talk of that?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And you talk of an English king?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She saw Mrs Clay fairly off, therefore, before she began to talk of spending the morning in Rivers Street.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The invalids improved rapidly, and Mr. March began to talk of returning early in the new year.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"I've hearn sailors talk of sharks followin' a ship," Bill remarked, as he crawled back into the blankets after one such replenishing of the fire.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You’re right, said Hans, as he weighed it in his hand; but if you talk of fat, my pig is no trifle.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Don't! Don't talk of elephants in South America.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
