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talker

/ˈtɔːkə/US/ˈtɔkɚ/

talker noun: a person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.

Noun

talker (plural talkers)

  1. A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
    • What this country needs is a smooth talker.
    • That guy's a real talker.
  2. Any creature or machine that talks.
    • Some parrots are vociferous talkers.
  3. (informal) A talk show
  4. (informal) A talk-show host.
  5. (informal) An all-talk radio station.
  6. (informal) A popular topic of conversation.
    • The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.
  7. (informal) A talking point.
  8. (Internet) A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
  9. (informal) Mouth.
    • Although on Sundays when the men had finished feeding cattle, the rest of the afternoon was free […] still they weren't comfortable in the bunkhouse if George was abroad; he had a queer authority without even knowing it, an ability to upset you, maybe because he so seldom opened his talker and his...2009, Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx, The Power of the Dog: A Novel, →ISBN
  10. A table talker or shelf-talker.
  11. An augmentative and alternative communication device.

talker meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

talker in Tamil

டாக்கர்

talker in Urdu

بکواسی, بولنے والا, جھکی

talker in Malayalam

conversationalist, speaker, communicator
സംഭാഷണവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, സംഭാഷണപ്രിയൻ, ഭാഷകൻ, ചുളുകൻ, സംഭാഷണചതുരൻ, വാദചഞ്ചു

talker in Sanskrit

a talker
गायन gāyana

Examples of talker in a sentence

  • Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012:
  • At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:

All 27 example sentences with talker

Synonyms of talker

Forms of talker

pluraltalkers

Plural of talker: talkers

Origin of talker

From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.

Words formed from talker

Words that rhyme with talker

Questions about talker

What does talker mean?
Talker means a person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
What is talker in Tamil?
Talker in Tamil is டாக்கர். See Talker meaning in Tamil.
How do you use talker in a sentence?
Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.
What part of speech is talker?
Talker is a noun.
How do you pronounce talker?
Talker is pronounced /ˈtɔːkə/ (UK).
What is the plural of talker?
The plural of talker is talkers.

Words near talker in the dictionary

  1. talkedst
  2. talkee
  3. talkee-talkee
  4. talkees
  5. Talkeetna
  6. talker
  7. talkers
  8. talkest
  9. talkest like a book
  10. talketh
  11. talkfest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: talker (page history and authors); talker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); talker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); talker (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); गायन (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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