TALKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does talker mean? 

• TALKER (noun)
  The noun TALKER has 1 sense:

1. someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)

  Familiarity information: TALKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TALKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer

Context example:

an utterer of useful maxims

Hypernyms ("talker" is a kind of...):

articulator (someone who pronounces words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "talker"):

narrator; storyteller; teller (someone who tells a story)

informant; witness; witnesser (someone who sees an event and reports what happened)

whisperer (one who speaks in a whisper)

wailer (a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries)

voicer (a speaker who voices an opinion)

vociferator (a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest))

venter (a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance)

talking head (a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen)

stentor (a speaker with an unusually loud voice)

stammerer; stutterer (someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions)

native speaker (a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood)

reciter (someone who recites from memory)

ranter; raver (someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner)

prattler (someone who speaks in a childish way)

orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)

alliterator (a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration)

mumbler; murmurer; mutterer (a person who speaks softly and indistinctly)

motormouth (someone who talks incessantly)

mentioner (a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally)

lisper (a speaker who lisps)

lecturer (someone who lectures professionally)

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner (someone who asks a question)

growler (a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl)

ejaculator (a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation)

driveller; jabberer (someone whose talk is trivial drivel)

drawler (someone who speaks with a drawl)

dictator (a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine)

conversationalist; conversationist; schmoozer (someone skilled at conversation)

babbler; chatterbox; chatterer; magpie; prater; spouter (an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker)

caller; caller-up; phoner; telephoner (the person initiating a telephone call)

Derivation:

talk (deliver a lecture or talk)

talk (express in speech)

talk (use language)

 Context examples 

The English o't being that a man of sense should ever avoid a great talker.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The party being now all united, and the chief talkers attracting each other, she remained in tranquillity; and as a whist-table was formed after tea—formed really for the amusement of Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am a talker, you know; I am rather a talker; and now and then I have let a thing escape me which I should not.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Neither did I, to be sure, he was so loose a talker; yet in this case I believe he was really right and that nobody had told the situation of the island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He is older than Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of great personal beauty.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Save in the Stranger’s Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cashier was Martin's black beast, and his temper was a trifle short where the talker of platitudes was concerned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Neither Lady Middleton nor Mrs. Jennings could supply to her the conversation she missed; although the latter was an everlasting talker, and from the first had regarded her with a kindness which ensured her a large share of her discourse.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers, on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At first there seemed danger of Lydia's engrossing him entirely, for she was a most determined talker; but being likewise extremely fond of lottery tickets, she soon grew too much interested in the game, too eager in making bets and exclaiming after prizes to have attention for anyone in particular.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)