Definitions for utterance

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utterance ut·ter·ance

Spelling: [uht-er-uh ns]

IPA: /ˈʌt ər əns/

Utterance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in utterance (aceenrttu).

Definitions for utterance

noun

1. an act of uttering; vocal expression.
2. manner of speaking; power of speaking:
3. something uttered; a word or words uttered; a cry, animal's call, or the like.
4. Linguistics. any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence: it may be coextensive with a sentence.
5. Obsolete. a public sale of goods.
6. the utmost extremity, especially death.

Origin of utterance

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at utter¹, -ance

Examples for utterance

What magic in the utterance, what a revelation of Cleopatra's character and of Shakespeare's!

Which, in such cases—the act or the utterance, the gesture or the text—is the palimpsest of other?

Around my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”

Hagel's May utterance that "we've got to understand great-power limitations" might be apt.

Her daughter Lila Grace Moss Hack first utterance was ‘Nazzi’ — short for paparazzi.

Yet, in the intensity of her utterance, the feeble whisper struck like a shriek of horror.

"Let us thank God, old man," I said, the tears of joy half choking my utterance.

There was no cessation, but the regular moment's pause, in the utterance of these sounds.

Simplicity and self-forgetfulness were manifest in carriage and utterance.

In recent weeks, the markets have been hanging, more than usual, on every Bernanke utterance.