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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
articulate, articulated, colloquial, common, conversational, enunciated, everyday, familiar, informal, lingual, linguistic, nonstandard, nuncupative, oral, parol, pronounced, said, sonant, sounded, speak, speech, substandard, traditional, uneducated, unliterary, unstudied, unwritten, uttered, verbal, vernacular, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word-of-mouth
Dictionary Results for spoken:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
spoken
    adj 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" [ant: written]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; --
      often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
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            Methinks you 're better spoken.       --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.
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            Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.
                                                  9.
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   2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
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            That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,
            as the tradesmen speak.               --Boyle.
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            An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a
            knave is not.                         --Shak.
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            During the century and a half which followed the
            Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English
            history.                              --Macaulay.
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   3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a
      public assembly formally.
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            Many of the nobility made themselves popular by
            speaking in Parliament against those things which
            were most grateful to his majesty.    --Clarendon.
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   4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
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            Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to
            him from the Leman Lake.              --Addison.
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   5. To give sound; to sound.
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            Make all our trumpets speak.          --Shak.
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   6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by
      utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
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            Thine eye begins to speak.            --Shak.
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   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.
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   Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;
        pronounce; utter.
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