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SPOKEN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination

Example:

sharp-spoken

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

expressed; uttered; verbalised; verbalized (communicated in words)

oral; unwritten (using speech rather than writing)

verbal (expressed in spoken words)

viva-voce; word-of-mouth (expressed orally)

Also:

articulate (expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)

Antonym:

written (set down in writing in any of various ways)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past participle of the verb speak

Credits

 Context examples: 

And has it indeed been spoken of?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I don't like to hear them spoken of.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could now speak the language tolerably well, and perfectly understood every word, that was spoken to me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Lately, there’s been an enormous focus on your written and spoken words, so you must have been working hard at your computer getting your work ready to be shown.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All-gone was already on the poor mouse’s lips; scarcely had she spoken it before the cat sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There's one thing, said he, that maybe I should have spoken about before this, but I wanted to know a little more clearly where I was.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We will carry you," replied the King, and no sooner had he spoken than two of the Monkeys caught Dorothy in their arms and flew away with her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) In the past 7 days, written or spoken communication is a problem for me.

(PDQUALIF - Problem with Communication in the Past 7 Days, NCI Thesaurus)

When first he came in, he had spoken to her but little; but every five minutes seemed to be giving her more of his attention.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her husband’s trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend and school companion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)