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TALKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
Example:
an utterer of useful maxims
Synonyms:
speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("talker" is a kind of...):
articulator (someone who pronounces words)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "talker"):
informant; witness; witnesser (someone who sees an event and reports what happened)
whisperer (one who speaks in a whisper)
wailer (a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries)
voicer (a speaker who voices an opinion)
vociferator (a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest))
venter (a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance)
talking head (a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen)
stentor (a speaker with an unusually loud voice)
stammerer; stutterer (someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions)
native speaker (a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood)
reciter (someone who recites from memory)
ranter; raver (someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner)
prattler (someone who speaks in a childish way)
orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)
narrator; storyteller; teller (someone who tells a story)
mumbler; murmurer; mutterer (a person who speaks softly and indistinctly)
motormouth (someone who talks incessantly)
mentioner (a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally)
lisper (a speaker who lisps)
lecturer (someone who lectures professionally)
asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner (someone who asks a question)
growler (a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl)
ejaculator (a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation)
driveller; jabberer (someone whose talk is trivial drivel)
drawler (someone who speaks with a drawl)
dictator (a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine)
conversationalist; conversationist; schmoozer (someone skilled at conversation)
babbler; chatterbox; chatterer; magpie; prater; spouter (an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker)
caller; caller-up; phoner; telephoner (the person initiating a telephone call)
alliterator (a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration)
Derivation:
talk (deliver a lecture or talk)
talk (express in speech)
talk (use language)
Context examples:
Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
William was often called on by his uncle to be the talker.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The brothers talked of their own concerns and pursuits, but principally of those of the elder, whose temper was by much the most communicative, and who was always the greater talker.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
For, hark ye: granting, propter argumentum, that I am a talker, then the true reasoning runs that since all men of sense should avoid me, and thou hast not avoided me, but art at the present moment eating herrings with me under a holly-bush, ergo you are no man of sense, which is exactly what I have been dinning into your long ears ever since I first clapped eyes on your sunken chops.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But in Martin's estimation the whole tribe of bank cashiers fell a few hundred per cent, and for the rest of the evening he labored under the impression that bank cashiers and talkers of platitudes were synonymous phrases.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Mr. Rushworth, however, though not usually a great talker, had still more to say on the subject next his heart.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Had she ever given way to bursts of delight, it must have been then, for she was delighted, but her happiness was of a quiet, deep, heart-swelling sort; and though never a great talker, she was always more inclined to silence when feeling most strongly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But she could never get acquainted with her: she did not know how it was, but there was such coldness and reserve—such apparent indifference whether she pleased or not—and then, her aunt was such an eternal talker!—and she was made such a fuss with by every body!—and it had been always imagined that they were to be so intimate—because their ages were the same, every body had supposed they must be so fond of each other.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
