TALKER

speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser

(noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); “the speaker at commencement”; “an utterer of useful maxims”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

talker (plural talkers)

A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.

Any creature or machine that talks.

(informal, media) A talk show

(informal, media) A talk-show host.

(informal, media) An all-talk radio station.

(informal, media) A popular topic of conversation.

(informal, politics) A talking point.

(Internet) A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.

(informal) Mouth.

Synonyms

• speaker

Source: Wiktionary


Talk"er, n.

1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.

2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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