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spoken to

spoken to is the past participle of speak to.

Meaning of speak to

Verb

speak to (third-person singular simple present speaks to, present participle speaking to, simple past spoke to, past participle spoken to)

  1. (idiomatic) To give evidence regarding something; to attest or provide evidence for; to bespeak.
    • This definitely speaks to the fact that at Georgetown, beginning at the admissions process, you're not a number but a real person.2006, Staff of Vault, The College Buzz Book, page 176
  2. (idiomatic) To address a particular topic.
    • Education for being speaks to what grows within the person himself1981, McGill journal of education
  3. (idiomatic) To (figuratively) resonate with; to feel emotionally relevant to.
    • His music really speaks to me.

Questions about spoken to

What is spoken to the past participle of?
Spoken to is the past participle of speak to.

Words near spoken to in the dictionary

  1. spoken out
  2. spoken out of turn
  3. spoken pause
  4. spoken pauses
  5. spoken someone's language
  6. spoken to
  7. spoken too soon
  8. spoken truth to power
  9. spoken up
  10. spoken volumes
  11. spoken well of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spoken to (page history and authors); speak to (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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