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Definitions of spoken
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of Speak
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Uttered in speech; oral.
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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"
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Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
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Speaking.
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From speak, which see.
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using the voice in speech; " vocal communication"; " either silent or vocal prayers"; " vocal noises"
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Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant- spoken man.
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Pa. p. of SPEAK.
Antonyms for spoken
graphic, inarticulate, holographic, implied, backhand, quiet, scrivened, in writing, cursive, graphical, handwritten, silent, paper, mute, unuttered, implicit, unspoken, unsaid, explicit, left-slanting, formal, written, unexpressed, engrossed, inscribed, surd, unvoiced, tacit, longhand, shorthand, Nonvocal, voiceless, wordless.
Quotes of spoken
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I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to- although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other- I think they still handle it as being one territory.
– Sean Booth -
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
– Sergei Bubka -
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
– Sandra Cisneros -
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
– Adam Clarke -
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken
– Fyodor Dostoevsky -
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
– Gustave Flaubert -
I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.
– John M. Ford -
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
– Benny Green -
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
– Henrik Ibsen -
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
– Charles Perrault -
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
– Frederick William Robertson -
On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.
– Jenny Shipley -
I often regret that I have spoken never that I have been silent.
– Publilius Syrus -
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
– Voltaire -
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken
– Barry White
Usage examples for spoken
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“ Nearly everybody knows French, but it is never spoken ”
– Castilian Days by John Hay -
“ Of course he had spoken out. ”
– Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope -
“ Not a word of Sarkeld could be spoken ”
– The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete by George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009 -
“ They had not spoken since close upon an hour. ”
– Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch -
“ You know we've spoken of that before. ”
– The Awkward Age by Henry James -
“ Up to the present time she had spoken as little as possible of Mrs. Blake. ”
– Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey -
“ Clarissa, this is the very first time you have spoken of her, either. ”
– Faith and Unfaith by Duchess -
“ He had spoken of it to Madame de Sauve and to his wife, but neither of them knew any more about it than he did. ”
– Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas -
“ For the first moment or two not a word was spoken on either side. ”
– The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins -
“ Yes, Sir; it could not have been spoken plainer. ”
– Queechy, Volume II by Elizabeth Wetherell -
“ Before Van had spoken indeed he was back again. ”
– The Awkward Age by Henry James -
“ He may never have spoken to him. ”
– The Chestermarke Instinct by J. S. Fletcher -
“ Who is this whom you have spoken to? ”
– The Dragon and the Raven or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. Henty -
“ Have you spoken to your son? ”
– The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden -
“ He had almost lost his hold upon himself; the great words had been almost spoken ”
– The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward -
“ I have spoken to him so often! ”
– Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus -
“ You have spoken big words. ”
– Spotted Deer by Elmer Gregor -
“ Have you spoken to her father or mother? ”
– Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope -
“ He had spoken and I had spoken too. ”
– The Beetle A Mystery by Richard Marsh -
“ She could not have spoken ”
– Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett