utterance
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈʌtərəns/
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enunciado
- In her speech, she made an utterance about the importance of kindness.
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No laughing, no whispering, no utterance of any kind.
- No laughing, no whispering, no utterance of any kind.
- So Alexa is now auto correcting millions and millions of utterances in US without any human supervision involved.
- So what that means is that all the people, before there was any writing, every word that they ever said, every utterance disappeared.
- Whose wisdom finds expression, utterance in the chorus of the elders.
- On the contrary, they, the actors, give utterance to the inner essence.
- He or she would work on work and work until they found some meaning in this sort of Chauncey Gardner like utterance that Minsky had made.
Examples
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My thoughts would compel utterance, and there was no audience but the Almighty.
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No laughing, no whispering, no utterance of any kind.
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I am the utterance of my name.
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Any utterance of the honorable member whom we have just heard must command our respect and attention.
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You should make your deeds correspond to your frequent utterance of the desire for peace.
Academic text (1990) -
The act of communication, the unrepeatable instance of utterance, is the distinctive feature of canto popular.
Academic text (1991) -
And all this, the general and the specific, the national and the personal, all this, he knows, and feels, and summons, somehow, however faintly, with the utterance of a single sound.
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In sociolinguistics, utterances are thought to communicate more than just dictionary meanings.
Academic text (2013) -
We spoke a double-tiered language, our innocent public utterance spiked with provocative private allusions.
Fiction book (1992) -
During the debate, his every utterance was carefully analyzed by the audience.
Synonyms
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1.0
The ability to use words with your voice to show thoughts or feelings
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5.2
A sound a person or animal makes with the voice to communicate
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2.6
Something you say aloud rather than write or think
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7.4
Words that you say to do something, like asking or promising
To make sounds with your mouth and throat when speaking, singing, or acting as a character
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Etymology
Utterance comes from the old verb utter, which is related to the common word out and originally meant 'to put out'. So an utterance is something you 'put out' with your voice — a spoken word or statement.