spoken

Definition

  • adjective: using speech and not writing
  • adjective: delivered by word of mouth
  • past participle of 'speak'
  • used in combination
  • synonyms: oral, ora, uttered

Examples

  • They haven't 'spoken' since the argument two years ago.

  • English is widely 'spoken' in many parts of the world.

  • I can't go out with you; I''m' already 'spoken for'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) His passing is hard to accept. Especially now that your brother has deserted you. Leave me alone, snake! Oh, but you are alone. Who knows what you've spoken to the darkness... ...in the bitter watches of the night... ...when all your life seems to shrink. The walls of your bower (..)
    2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • (..) And the precious is wanting to go back to him. But we mustn't let him have it. No! There's another way. More secret. A dark way. - Why haven't you spoken of this before? - Because master did not ask. He's up to something. Are you saying there's another way into Mordor? Yes. There's a path... (..)
    2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers