Spoken

Definition: Spoken

Spoken

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Using the voice in speech; "vocal communication"; "either silent or vocal prayers"; "vocal noises".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spoken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Spoken

Concealment

Irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of; unmentionable.

Courtesy

Fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious.

Disrepute

Adverb: to one's shame be it spoken.

Falsehood

Artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected.

Fashion

Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous).

Flattery

Blandiloquent, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly, courtier-like.

Information

Expressive; explicit; (open), (clear); plain spoken; (artless).

Speech

Adjective: speaking; spoken; Verb: oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent; talkative; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.

Crosswords: Spoken

Dutch (haunt).

Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

The Great Oz has spoken! (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf)

Had it been found open, you would not have spoken of spiritual unease -- you would have concluded that he'd fallen. (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach)

I've just spoken to Monty. (A Bridge Too Far; writing credit: Cornelius Ryan; William Goldman)

Truer words were never spoken. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird (Morning Has Broken; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

I have spoken (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me; performing artist: Culture Club)

So, I'm sorry for the words I've spoken (Between You And Me; performing artist: DC Talk)

Vows are spoken (Enjoy the Silence; performing artist: Depeche Mode)

Your bags are packed not a word is spoken (Cold Day In July; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. (references; author: Russian Proverb)

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. (references; author: unknown)

A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken. (references; author: unknown)

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell her so. (references; author: unknown)

American Spoken Here (1940)

Mexican as It Is Spoken (1911)

The Fans Have Spoken 3 (2003)

Jazz Is Spoken Here Ellis Marsalis (2000)

Spoken Art (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Spoken Word Books (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• God Has Spoken (reference)

• Japanese: The Spoken Language (Part 1) (reference)

• Listen Up!: Spoken Word Poetry (reference)

• Only Golf Spoken Here: Memoirs of a Passionate Irish Golfer (reference)

• Power of the Spoken Word (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Soft Spoken Words of Fallbrook [EP] [CD-SINGLE] [EP] (reference)

• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1996 Spoken Word Adaptation) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• Spoken for (reference)

• Broken Ties Spoken Lies (reference)

• Spoken Through the Profits [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaks to another ship via electric megaphone (or "loud hailer") from the bridge of his flagship, USS Phoenix (CL-46), during the pre-landing bombardment of Corregidor, 15 February 1945. The original caption identifies the ship being spoken to as HMAS Australia, which was not present. It may refer to HMAS Shropshire, whose appearance was similar to that of Australia. Credit: NAVY.

So many truths spoken by the Master Poet come to us exhaling the odours of the open country. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign on window in Miami - "Cuba in Miami, English spoken" and picture of John F. Kennedy in the window. Credit: Library of Congress.

The McKinley stump, Chehallis, Washington, from which presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, and other noted men have spoken. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Spanish-American community, which has eight grades and two teachers. Most of the teaching is in Spanish, the language spoken in the children's homes, and as a result they rarely speak Engli. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I have not yet spoken of poverty and privation which are in many cases the prevailing anxiety. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And it was spoken with a sort of sighing animation, which had a vast deal of the lover.

As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand.

If spoken to, she would not speak again.

Once I would not have spoken as I have now, but so many misfortunes have befallen me that sometimes I do not know what I am saying.

The phrase had been spoken lightly with design and he felt that his face was being searched by the eyes in the shadow.

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

Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

People with fluent aphasia have problems understanding spoken and written language. (references)

A major feature of LKS is the gradual or sudden loss of the ability to understand and use spoken language. (references)

Aphasia (uh-fay'-zhuh) is a communication disorder that can affect a person's ability to use and understand spoken or written words. (references)

Business

Over 50 indigenous languages are spoken. (references)

The language spoken in Netherlands is Dutch. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

AFP protested his arrest and explained that Ouattara had spoken with arrested coup suspects because he was covering the coup attempt for the AFP. (references)

Botswana

The Daily News also publishes general coverage of current events and issues and includes a second front page in Setswana, the most commonly spoken tribal language. (references)

Greece

The Government claims and Muslims and Christians agree that a lack of fluency in written and spoken Greek and the need for university degrees for high-level positions limit the number of Muslims eligible for government jobs. (references)

Economic History

Solomon Islands

About 70 vernaculars are spoken. (references)

Comoros

French and Arabic also are spoken. (references)

Latvia

Russian also is spoken by most people. (references)

Human Rights

Zambia

The Commission has spoken out on behalf of detainees and prisoners. (references)

Swaziland

Human rights groups have spoken out on a number of occasions, criticizing the lack of accountability and transparency in government circles. (references)

Algeria

In November 1999, prominent FIS leader Abdelkader Hachani, who had spoken out in favor of peace and reconciliation, was shot and killed in Algiers. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

In 1998 the Indigenous Languages Officialization Commission issued a report in which it recommended that a variety of public services be provided in the four most widely spoken indigenous languages (K'iche', Q'eqchi', Mam, and Kaqchikel), with a lesser degree of services provided in less widely spoken indigenous languages. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

The Chinese language may be taught, spoken, and printed, and private instruction in Chinese no longer is prohibited. (references)

Macau

Although Portuguese officials no longer dominate the civil service, the governmental and legal systems place a premium on knowledge of the Portuguese language, which is spoken by less than 4 percent of the population. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

The Prime Minister and his cabinet have publicly spoken out about the need to improve IPR protection. (references)

Political Rights

Bhutan

The procedures for the nomination and election of National Assembly members state that in order to be eligible for nomination as a candidate, a person must be a citizen of Bhutan; be at least 25 years of age; not be married to a foreign national; not have been terminated or compulsorily retired for misconduct from government service; not have committed any act of treason against the King, the populace, and country; have no criminal record or any criminal case pending against him; have respect for the nation's laws; and be able to read and write in Dzongkha (the language, in several dialects, spoken by Bhutanese Buddhists). (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

German and French are also widely spoken. (references)

Women

Ghana

Officials at all levels have spoken out against the practice, and local NGO's are making some inroads through their educational campaigns to encourage abandonment of FGM and to retrain practitioners. (references)

Guinea

FGM is illegal under the Penal Code, and senior officials and both the official and private press have spoken against the practice; however, there have been no prosecutions for violations of the code. (references)

Liberia

Prior to the onset of the civil war in 1989, approximately 50 percent of women in rural areas between the ages of 8 and 18 were subjected to FGM. A local organization, Human Rights Watch Women and Children, which does not receive government funding, launched a campaign during the year to eradicate FGM. The Association of Female Lawyers in Liberia (AFELL) also has spoken out against FGM. Social structures and traditional institutions, such as the secret societies that often performed FGM as an initiation rite, were undermined by the war. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Buildings are of Chinese architectural style; the Chinese language is spoken widely, and Chinese characters are used in most commercial and official communications. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "spoken": ad to one's shame be it spoken ♦ not to be spoken of ♦ plain spoken ♦ rough spoken ♦ smooth spoken ♦ soft spoken ♦ spoken chess ♦ spoken english ♦ spoken for ♦ spoken inarticulations ♦ spoken language ♦ spoken word ♦ well spoken. Additional references.

Beginning with "spoken": spoken-of, spoken-word, spoken-word cassette, spoken-worder, spoken-written.

Ending with "spoken": gently-spoken, quietly-spoken, quiet-spoken, softly-spoken, well-spoken.

Containing "spoken": Free-spoken-ness, much-spoken-of.

Albanian

e folur (vernacular). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منطوق, ‏ملفوظ (pronounced, said, uttered), ‏ناطق (speaking, talking). (various references)

Bulgarian 

устен (lip, nuncupative, oral, oscular, viva voce), говорим, изречен. (various references)

Chinese 

讲话 (speak, speaking, speech). (various references)

Czech

mluvený (nuncupative, nuncupatory, speaking), hovorový (colloquial, informal). (various references)

Danish

sprogtest (assessment of spoken language), talt sprog (spoken language), talt skak (spoken chess, voice chess), talesprog (spoken language), taleskak (spoken chess, voice chess), mere udbredt sprog (more widely spoken language), behandling af talt sprog (processing spoken language). (various references)

Dutch

gesproken. (various references)

Finnish

puhekieli (conversational, spoken language). (various references)

French

parlé. (various references)

German

gesprochen (spoke, spoked, talked), sprechend (conversing, dialoguing, eloquent, speaking, talking), geredet. (various references)

Greek 

μετοχή του speak, ομιλούμενοσ (conversational). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ובר, � אמר. (various references)

Hungarian

beszélt (spoke). (various references)

Italian

verbale (minutes, oral, record, verbal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

音声言語 (a spoken language), 話言葉 (colloquial expression, spoken language), 話し言葉 (spoken word), 言文一致 (unification of the written and spoken forms of a language), 筆舌 (description, written and spoken words), 右と言えば左 (widely spoken), 御言 (the spoken words of the emperor or a noble), 口語英語 (spoken English). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

お�"せい�'�"�" (a spoken language), ひつぜつ (description, written and spoken words), �"う�"えい�" (spoken English), �'�"ぶ�"いっち (unification of the written and spoken forms of a language), みぎといえばひ� り (widely spoken), み�"と (lord, prince, the spoken words of the emperor or a noble, words of a ruler), はなし�"とば (colloquial expression, spoken language, spoken word). (various references)

Korean 

말하�" (said, Talked, Told). (various references)

Manx

tagglooit, rait, raait, loayrit (addressed, oral). (various references)

Pig Latin

okenspay

Portuguese

bem falado. (various references)

Quechua

ninapaq (for you tosay, to be spoken). (various references)

Romanian

vorbit (colloquial), oral (oral, orally, unwritten, verbal, verbally). (various references)

Russian 

устный (oral, verbal, vocal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

particip proš. od speak, govorni (colloquial, conversational, lingual, speaking, vernacular). (various references)

Spanish

pp de speak, hablado (oral). (various references)

Swedish

talad. (various references)

Thai

กริยาช่อง 3 ของ speak. (various references)

Turkish

konuşulan, konuşma (address, allocution, causerie, chat, conversation, delivery, discourse, harangue, interlocution, oration, speaking, speech, spiel, talk, talking, utterance), konuşan (speaking, talker, talking). (various references)

Turkmen 

gepleюik (negotiated, negotiations). (various references)

Ukrainian

усний (nuncupative, oral, verbal, vocal), гучний (altisonant, big, boffo, deep-mouthed, exclamatory, loud, orotund, reverberating, vocal, wild). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thẳng thắn (downright, fair, fair-dealing, fairly, forthright, frank, free-hearted, hunky, level, plain-spoken, sporting, sporty, square, straight). (various references)

Welsh

ar lafar (oral). (various references)

uxdhâ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "spoken": bespoken, forespoken, misspoken, outspoken, plainspoken, respoken, unspoken. (additional references)

Words containing "spoken": outspokenly, outspokenness, outspokennesses, plainspokenness, plainspokennesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spoken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poken, soaken, spaken, spamen, speken, spokan, spokey, spoofen, spooker, spuen, stoken. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kenos, knops, knosp, opens, peons, pokes, pones, spoke.

-2 letters: eons, epos, keno, kens, keps, knop, kops, noes, nope, nose, okes, ones, open, opes, pens, peon, peso, poke, pone, pons, pose, skep, soke, sone.

-3 letters: ens, eon, ken, kep, kop, kos, nos, oes, oke, one, ons, ope, ops, ose, pen, pes, sen, son, sop.

+1 letter: pinkoes, unspoke.

+2 letters: bespoken, penstock, pokiness, pyknoses, respoken, unspoken.

+3 letters: kinescope, misspoken, openworks, outspoken, penstocks, spokesman, spokesmen.

+4 letters: alpenstock, forespoken, kinescoped, kinescopes, monkeypods, nonspeaker, pokinesses, presoaking, spookiness.

+5 letters: alpenstocks, checkpoints, kinescoping, kinetoplast, kinetoscope, knifepoints, leukopenias, lymphokines, nonspeakers, nonspeaking, outspeaking, outspokenly, pawnbrokers, plainspoken, spokeswoman, spokeswomen.