'hold forth' definitions:
Definition of 'hold forth'
(from WordNet)
verb
Talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" [syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate]
Synonyms of 'hold forth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- debate,
- declaim,
- demagogue,
- discourse,
- elocute,
- explain,
- exposit,
- expound,
- extend,
- harangue,
- hold out,
- lecture,
- monologize,
- monopolize the conversation,
- moralize,
- mouth,
- offer,
- orate,
- out-herod Herod,
- perorate,
- point a moral,
- preach,
- prefer,
- present,
- proffer,
- put up,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- read,
- read a lesson,
- recite,
- rodomontade,
- say aside,
- sermonize,
- soliloquize,
- spiel,
- spout,
- submit,
- tender,
- think aloud,
- think out loud,
- tub-thump