talker

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UK /ˈtɔːkə/ US /ˈtɔkɚ/

noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

far, felicitous, good, great, interesting, natural, poor, real

VERB + TALKER

bit, born, returning

TALKER + NOUN

sherry, tom, turkle

PREP.

from, in, up, with

ADV.

quite, sometimes

Definitions

noun

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

What this country needs is a smooth talker.

That guy's a real talker.

Any creature or machine that talks.

Some parrots are vociferous talkers.

A talk show

A talk-show host.

An all-talk radio station.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — someone who expresses in language

speaker
utterer
verbalizer
verbaliser

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

What this country needs is a smooth talker.

Wiktionary

That guy's a real talker.

Wiktionary

Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.

Wiktionary

Mrs. Lee is a great talker.

Tatoeba · #29706

You sure gab a lot don't you? You're a natural born talker.

Tatoeba · #32981

This is shorthand writing, by means of which we can keep up with the talker.

Tatoeba · #56171

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, talker is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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