spoken
uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination
How often you will meet it
Rank 861 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,309 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination a spoken messagethe spoken language
spoken in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But I’ve never even spoken to him.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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He enumerated the persons with whom he had spoken.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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We would have spoken to each other without any introduction.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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His father had never spoken to him so; never before, perhaps, had he said anything as intimate to any of his sons.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1