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talk·er

(tô′kər)

One who talks, especially a loquacious or garrulous person.

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Noun

talker - 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"

speaker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer

alliterator - a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration

articulator - someone who pronounces words

caller-up, phoner, telephoner, caller - the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"

babbler, chatterer, prater, spouter, chatterbox, magpie - an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer - someone skilled at conversation

dictator - a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

drawler - someone who speaks with a drawl

driveller, jabberer - someone whose talk is trivial drivel

ejaculator - a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation

growler - a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl

asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner - someone who asks a question

lecturer - someone who lectures professionally

lisper - a speaker who lisps

mentioner - a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally

motormouth - someone who talks incessantly; "I wish that motormouth would shut up"

mumbler, murmurer, mutterer - a person who speaks softly and indistinctly

narrator, storyteller, teller - someone who tells a story

orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker - a person who delivers a speech or oration

prattler - someone who speaks in a childish way

ranter, raver - someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner

reciter - someone who recites from memory

native speaker - a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood; "native speakers of French"

stammerer, stutterer - someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions

stentor - a speaker with an unusually loud voice

talking head - a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen

venter - a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance

vociferator - a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest)

voicer - a speaker who voices an opinion

wailer - a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries

whisperer - one who speaks in a whisper

witness, witnesser, informant - someone who sees an event and reports what happened

talker

noun speaker, lecturer, orator, conversationalist, chatterbox, speechmaker She was a fluent talker.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

talker

noun

One given to conversation:

confabulator, conversationalist, conversationist, discourser.

Translations

phraseur

chiacchierone parlatore

talker

[ˈtɔːkəʳ] N → hablador(a) m/f
to be a good talker → hablar con soltura, tener una conversación amena
I'm not much of a talker → no soy buen conversador
he's just a talker → se le va la fuerza por la boca

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

talker

[ˈtɔːkə^r] n
to be a good talker (= good conversationalist) → savoir s'exprimer, bien parler
He's not much of a talker → Il ne parle pas beaucoup.
She's a great talker (= very talkative) → Elle parle beaucoup.talking book n → livre m audiotalking point n → sujet m de discussiontalking-to [ˈtɔːkɪŋtuː] n → savon m
to give sb a good talking-to → passer un savon à qntalk show n → talk-show mtalk time n (on mobile phone) → temps f de communication

→ autonomie f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

talker

n → Redner(in) m(f); the parrot was a good talker → der Papagei konnte gut sprechen; he’s just a talker → er ist ein Schwätzer m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

talker

[ˈtɔːkəʳ] n → parlatore/trice (pej) → chiacchierone/a

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Besides, the Widow Steavens is a good talker, and she has a remarkable memory.'

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He was a live man and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, and was doing a raging business.

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But this was not an easy thing to do, for Strickland was not a fluent talker. He seemed to express himself with difficulty, as though words were not the medium with which his mind worked; and you had to guess the intentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures.

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Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs.

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And if the temperance and justice of him who commands is different from his who, though a freeman, is under command, it is evident that the virtues of a good citizen cannot be the same as justice, for instance but must be of a different species in these two different situations, as the temperance and courage of a man and a woman are different from each other; for a man would appear a coward who had only that courage which would be graceful in a woman, and a woman would be thought a talker who should take as large a part in the conversation as would become a man of consequence.

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She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr.

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Jennings could supply to her the conversation she missed; although the latter was an everlasting talker, and from the first had regarded her with a kindness which ensured her a large share of her discourse.

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Thorpe Athelny was a good talker. He did not say brilliant things, but he talked inspiringly, with an eager vividness which fired the imagination; Philip, living so much in a world of make-believe, found his fancy teeming with new pictures.

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Daughtry nodded, and thereupon ensued a loud-voiced discussion that drew Michael's earnest attention from one talker to the other.

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He was a grave, quiet sort of person, and (unlike the other one) not much of a talker.

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Never, perhaps, since the great Sam had held his court had such a talker been heard.

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She was always a great talker and yet she was the first of our family to get married.