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{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more well-spoken",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"superlative"
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"pos": "adj",
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"ref": "1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231",
"text": "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 […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Eloquent and able with regards to speech."
],
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"Eloquent",
"eloquent"
],
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"speech"
]
],
"related": [
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"word": "outspoken"
},
{
"word": "plainspoken"
},
{
"word": "softspoken"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "articulate"
},
{
"word": "eloquent"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "učtiv",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "учтив"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "elokvent"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "elokventa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "sprachmächtig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "redegewandt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "eloquent"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "sprachlich gewandt"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "eústomos",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "εὔστομος"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-bhriathrach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-chainteach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-labhartha"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "deisbhéalach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "fiosúil"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "soilbhir"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "účtiv",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "у́чтив"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "jeih-ocklagh"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "jeih-loayrtagh"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "språkmektig"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "språkmektige"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "у̀чтив"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "ùčtiv"
}
]
}
],
"word": "well-spoken"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more well-spoken",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most well-spoken",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"expansion": "well-spoken (comparative more well-spoken, superlative most well-spoken)",
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "outspoken"
},
{
"word": "plainspoken"
},
{
"word": "softspoken"
}
],
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231",
"text": "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 […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Eloquent and able with regards to speech."
],
"links": [
[
"Eloquent",
"eloquent"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "articulate"
},
{
"word": "eloquent"
}
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "učtiv",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "учтив"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "elokvent"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "elokventa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "sprachmächtig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "redegewandt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "eloquent"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "sprachlich gewandt"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "eústomos",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "εὔστομος"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-bhriathrach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-chainteach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-labhartha"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "deisbhéalach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "fiosúil"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "soilbhir"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "účtiv",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "у́чтив"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "jeih-ocklagh"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "jeih-loayrtagh"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "språkmektig"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "språkmektige"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "у̀чтив"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "ùčtiv"
}
],
"word": "well-spoken"
}
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