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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spoken
I.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(there's) many a true word spoken in jest
be spoken for
▪ But all of the money is spoken for.
▪ Contest ends when all tickets are spoken for.&.
▪ Most of your capital is spoken for, and the creditors are closing in.
▪ Though they were spoken for my benefit, I could not be assumed to share the same norms.
▪ When the words were spoken for the third time, however, the divorce was irrevocable.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quietly
▪ He was a quietly spoken middle-aged man whom anyone would find difficult to remember.
softly
▪ Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.
▪ Elderly, softly spoken Mr Crawford in that rather Dickensian office in the City was a far cry from this.
▪ It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings.
▪ For in the softly spoken comment she had sensed condemnation.
▪ Their loving was wild and tempestuous, with no time to spare for tenderness or softly spoken promises.
■ NOUN
discourse
▪ As a result, spoken discourse comes to be regarded as more honest and truthful.
▪ In spoken discourse, there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure.
▪ Some of the features we have described as marking paratone boundaries in spoken discourse can, of course, have other functions.
form
▪ The distinction between the two written forms does not correspond to any distinction in their spoken form.
language
▪ This figure, of course, is much higher than one expects for two unrelated spoken languages.
▪ The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.
▪ One reason for this is that reading development is normally closely related to children's knowledge of spoken language.
▪ Many facets of spoken language are absent from written language.
▪ For this reason, spoken language interpreters are specifically trained to reject the effects of their utterance of the target language.
▪ This is true even though they bring to the search the knowledge they already possess about how spoken language works.
▪ They occur alongside spoken language, interact with it, and produce, together with it, a total system of communication.
▪ The information you get from him/her will be spoken language.
word
▪ But the power of X-Clan is not the spoken word.
▪ In cases of conduction aphasia, comprehension of spoken words and simple spoken sentences can be intact.
▪ By the time the talking was over, the hearings had generated over nine million spoken words.
▪ Thus, in spoken word identification, context plays a part before identification has been achieved.
▪ The spoken word must be heard clearly.
▪ Large halls ideal for music can be too reverberant for the spoken word.
▪ The most important bias of dictionaries is to the written rather than the spoken word.
▪ We recorded some spoken word with Burroughs to incorporate directly into a remix of the song.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be spoken for
▪ But all of the money is spoken for.
▪ Contest ends when all tickets are spoken for.&.
▪ Most of your capital is spoken for, and the creditors are closing in.
▪ Though they were spoken for my benefit, I could not be assumed to share the same norms.
▪ When the words were spoken for the third time, however, the divorce was irrevocable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Idiomatic and spoken phrases tend to differ widely throughout the country.
▪ This book will help you with both spoken and written English.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the time the talking was over, the hearings had generated over nine million spoken words.
▪ Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.
▪ In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.
▪ It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings.
▪ One item which is becoming more significant is powers of communication - both spoken and written word.
▪ One very important problem in early learning is caused by the difference between spoken and written language.
▪ The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language, even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous.
▪ The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spoken

Spoken \Spo"ken\ (sp[=o]"k'n), a. [p. p. of Speak.]

  1. Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

  2. Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.

    Methinks you 're better spoken.
    --Shak.

Spoken

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.

    Till at the last spake in this manner.
    --Chaucer.

    Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.
    --1 Sam. iii. 9.

  2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

    That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak.
    --Boyle.

    An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
    --Shak.

    During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history.
    --Macaulay.

  3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

    Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.
    --Clarendon.

  4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

    Lycan speaks of a part of C[ae]sar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.
    --Addison.

  5. To give sound; to sound.

    Make all our trumpets speak.
    --Shak.

  6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

    Thine eye begins to speak.
    --Shak.

    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.

    Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spoken

"uttered, oral" (as opposed to written), 1837, past participle adjective from speak (v.).

Wiktionary
spoken

  1. 1 Relating to speech 2 Speaking in a specified way v

  2. (past participle of speak English)

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WordNet
speak

  1. v. express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise]

  2. exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" [syn: talk]

  3. use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [syn: talk]

  4. give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [syn: address]

  5. make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"

  6. [also: spoken, spoke]

spoken

  1. adj. 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" [ant: written]

  2. using the voice in speech; "vocal communication"; "either silent or vocal prayers"; "vocal noises" [syn: vocal]

spoken

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Wikipedia
Spoken

Spoken is the past participle form of "to speak".

Spoken may also refer to:

  • Spoken (band), a Christian rock group from Arkansas
  • Spoken (album), an album by Spoken
Spoken (band)

Spoken is a American Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They have released four studio albums on Tooth & Nail Records and E1 Music.

Spoken (album)

Spoken is the sixth studio album released by the Christian hard rock band Spoken. The album was released on September 25, 2007. Radio singles released from this album include "When Hope Is All You Have" and "Trading in This Troubled Heart".

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Usage examples of "spoken".

Howbeit he had looked on the King closely and wisely, and deemed that he was both cruel and guileful, so that he rejoiced that he had spoken naught of Ursula, and he was minded to keep her within gates all the while they abode at Cheaping-Knowe.

I noticed that the boy I had spoken to, the one addressed by Mr Quigg as Mealy-Plant, was, like me, making no attempt to obtain any of the potatoes although he was one of the comparatively larger boys.

But now that Kutuzov had spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of an old friend.

Once a religion is established in a nation the Lord leads that nation according to the precepts and tenets of its own religion, and He has provided that there should be precepts in every religion like those in the Decalog, that God should be worshiped, His name not be profaned, a holy day be observed, that parents be honored, murder, adultery and theft not be committed, and false witness not be spoken.

Islamic Orientalism between the wars shared in the general sense of cultural crisis adumbrated by Auerbach and the others I have spoken of briefly, without at the same time developing in the same way as the other human sciences.

Of the other two, one was ideogrammatic, the figuration of ideas, and the other alphabetic, the representation of spoken sounds.

The making of the railway of which I have spoken, and the amalgamation of the provinces would greatly tend to such an event.

The words were spoken in her mind with such clarity that Amelle jumped.

Instead, it was as though his words about the squire, lightly spoken, had reminded Libby Ames of .

Later, are added to these the answers to simple spoken questions, these answers being partly interjectional, partly articulate, joined into syllables, words, and then sentences.

Pique--Reconciliation--The First Meeting--A Philosophical Parenthesis My beautiful nun had not spoken to me, and I was glad of it, for I was so astonished, so completely under the spell of her beauty, that I might have given her a very poor opinion of my intelligence by the rambling answers which I should very likely have given to her questions.

The Jew was astonished at my not having spoken to the secretary, although my silence had cried more loudly than his cowardly complaints.

She was astonished to see me so undone and cast down, and asked me what was the grief of which I had spoken to her father, and which had proved too strong for my philosophy.

He supposed she was still resentful of the way he had spoken to her about young Chandler and the new Avenger murder.

It is true that I did not mean for you or any one here in Orham to learn of my--of our trouble, and if Babbie had not told you so much I probably should never have spoken to you about it.