Definitions for talker
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
talktɔk(v.i.)
to communicate or exchange ideas or information by speaking.
to consult or confer:
Talk with your adviser.
to spread a rumor; gossip.
to chatter or prate.
to use speech; perform the act of speaking.
to deliver a speech or lecture:
The professor talked on modern physics.
to give confidential or incriminating information:
The spy talked during interrogation.
to communicate by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals.
to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech.
(v.t.)to express in words; utter:
to talk sense.
to use (a specified language or idiom) in speaking or conversing:
They talk French together.
to discuss:
to talk politics.
Informal.(used only in progressive tenses) to focus on; talk about:
This isn't a question of a few hundred dollars - we're talking serious money.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal
to drive or influence by talk:
to talk a person to sleep.
talk around, to avoid discussion of.
Category: Verb Phrase
talk back,to reply in a disrespectful manner.
Category: Idiom
talk down, to subdue by talking, as by argument. to speak condescendingly. Also, talk in. to give landing instructions to (a pilot) by radio.
Category: Verb Phrase, Aeronautics
talk out, to try to clarify or resolve by discussion.
Category: Verb Phrase
talk out of, to dissuade, as from doing, using, etc.
Category: Verb Phrase
talk over, to consider; discuss.
Category: Verb Phrase
talk up, to promote with enthusiastic description. to speak openly or distinctly.
Category: Verb Phrase
(n.)the act of talking; speech.
an informal speech or lecture.
a conference or negotiating session:
peace talks.
rumor; gossip.
empty speech:
all talk and no results.
a way of talking:
quiet talk.
dialect or lingo.
sounds suggestive of speech.
Origin of talk:
1175–1225; ME talk(i)en, der. of tale speech, discourse, tale ; c. Fris (E dial.) talken
talk′er(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser(noun)
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
"the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
Wiktionary
talker(Noun)
A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
What this country needs is a smooth talker.
talker(Noun)
A talk show; a talk-show host; an all-talk radio station.
talker(Noun)
A popular topic of conversation.
The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.
talker(Noun)
A talking point.
talker(Noun)
A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, that predates instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
Webster Dictionary
Talker(noun)
one who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist
Talker(noun)
a loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach
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