'Speak' definitions:

Definition of 'speak'

From: WordNet
verb
Express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise]
verb
Exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" [syn: talk, speak]
verb
Use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [syn: speak, talk]
verb
Give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [syn: address, speak]
verb
Make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"

Definition of 'Speak'

From: GCIDE
  • Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. Spoke(SpakeArchaic); p. p. Spoken(Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[=u]rj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]
  • 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. [1913 Webster]
  • Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. [1913 Webster]
  • That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
  • An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. [1913 Webster]
  • Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. [1913 Webster]
  • Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To give sound; to sound. [1913 Webster]
  • Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. [1913 Webster]
  • Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
  • To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly.
  • To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to.
  • To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me?" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Speak'

From: GCIDE
  • Speak \Speak\, v. t.
  • 1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. [1913 Webster]
  • They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. --Job. ii. 13. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. [1913 Webster]
  • It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Report speaks you a bonny monk. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. [1913 Webster]
  • And French she spake full fair and fetisely. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [1913 Webster]
  • [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. --Ecclus. xiii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
  • To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'speak'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Speak'