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well-spoken en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. Eloquent and able with regards to speech.
   • However well spoken a lawyer might be and however powerful an orator he may be, at the end the judge will make a decision based on legal statutes. 2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153:
   • To get a minimum-wage employee, the company settled for a woman barely out of high school who was not well-spoken, and while she didn't cost much, the problem was that she was the first impression callers had of this multimillion dollar company. 2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage:
   • They've obviously never met before, but are getting on like a house on fire. Both are well-spoken and versed in the Queen's English. 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:
   • You give the well-spoken young man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: "I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment […] 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231:

Forms

Relateds

outspoken · plainspoken · softspoken

Synonyms

articulate · eloquent

Translations (23)

ga fiosúil (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · id fasih (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · gv jeih-loayrtagh (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · de redegewandt (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · ota فصیح (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · nb språkmektig (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · mk у́чтив (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · de sprachlich gewandt (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · sh у̀чтив (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · de sprachmächtig (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · sh ùčtiv (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · ga soilbhir (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · de eloquent (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · ga dea-chainteach (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · ga dea-labhartha (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · eo elokventa (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · bg учтив (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · ga deisbhéalach (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · da elokvent (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · nb språkmektige (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · ga dea-bhriathrach (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · grc εὔστομος (eloquent and able with regards to speech) · gv jeih-ocklagh (eloquent and able with regards to speech)