English > talker: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who expresses in language; someone who talks / talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous). |
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| Synonyms | speaker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser |
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| Narrower | alliterator | A speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration |
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| caller, caller-up, phoner, telephoner | The person initiating a telephone call |
| chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, magpie, spouter | An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker |
| conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer | someone skilled at conversation |
| dictator | A speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine |
| drawler | someone who speaks with a drawl |
| driveller, jabberer | someone whose talk is trivial drivel |
| ejaculator | A speaker who utters a sudden exclamation |
| growler | A speaker whose voice sounds like a growl |
| inquirer, enquirer, questioner, querier, asker | someone who asks a question |
| lecturer | someone who lectures professionally |
| lisper | A speaker who lisps |
| mentioner | A speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally |
| motormouth | someone who talks incessantly |
| mutterer, mumbler, murmurer | A person who speaks softly and indistinctly |
| narrator, storyteller, teller | someone who tells a story |
| native speaker | A speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood |
| orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier | A person who delivers a speech or oration |
| prattler | someone who speaks in a childish way |
| ranter, raver | someone who rants and raves |
| reciter | someone who recites from memory |
| stammerer, stutterer | someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions |
| stentor | A speaker with an unusually loud voice |
| talking head | A talker on television who talks / talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen |
| venter | A speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance |
| vociferator | A loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest) |
| voicer | A speaker who voices an opinion |
| wailer | A mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries |
| whisperer | One who speaks in a whisper |
| witness, witnesser, informant | someone who sees an event and reports what happened |
| Broader | articulator | someone who pronounces words |
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| Spanish | hablador, orador, verbaliser |
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| Catalan | comunicant, interlocutor, orador, parlador, parlant, verbaliser |
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| Verbs | talk | express in speech |
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| talk | use language |
| talk | deliver a lecture / lecture or talk |
