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hold forth

hold forth verb: to extend or offer, propose.

Verb

hold forth (third-person singular simple present holds forth, present participle holding forth, simple past and past participle held forth)

  1. (transitive) To extend or offer, propose.
  2. (intransitive) To talk at great length.
    • I bestrode the courtroom entranceway, holding forth on my merits to the assembled press.
    • Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.1908, R. Forsythe, “Our Hippopotamus Hunt”, in The Wide World Magazine, volume XX, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 400
    Synonyms:
    expatiate, harangue

hold forth meaning in Malayalam and Sanskrit

hold forth in Malayalam

talk at length, speak at length, go on
നീണ്ട പ്രസംഗം ചെയ്യുക, നീട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുക, സുദീർഘമായി സംസാരിക്കുക, നീണ്ടസംസാരം നടത്തുക, സംസാരിച്ചുകൊണ്ടേയിരിക്കുക, സംസാരം അനിശ്ചിതമായി തുടരുക

hold forth in Sanskrit

to hold forth
प्रगृह्णाति pragṛhṇāti

Synonyms of hold forth

Forms of hold forth

third-person singular presentholds forth
present participleholding forth
past participleheld forth
pastheld forth

Questions about hold forth

What does hold forth mean?
Hold forth means to extend or offer, propose.
What is hold forth in Malayalam?
Hold forth in Malayalam is നീണ്ട പ്രസംഗം ചെയ്യുക, നീട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുക, സുദീർഘമായി സംസാരിക്കുക. See Hold forth meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hold forth?
Hold forth is a verb.
What is the past tense of hold forth?
The past tense of hold forth is held forth.

Words near hold forth in the dictionary

  1. hold down the fort
  2. hold fast
  3. hold fire
  4. hold firm
  5. hold for ransom
  6. hold forth
  7. hold good
  8. hold hands
  9. hold hard
  10. hold harmless
  11. hold hostage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold forth (page history and authors); hold forth (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); प्रगृह्णाति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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