3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

talker

noun: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" [syn: {speaker}, {utterer}, {verbalizer}, {verbaliser}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Talker \Talk"er\, noun

1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. --Macaulay.

2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. --Jer. Taylor.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "talker": blatherskite, blowhard, blusterer, chatterbox, collocutor, colloquialist, conversational partner, conversationalist, converser, debater, declaimer, demagogue, dialogist, discourser, gasbag, haranguer, interlocutor, interlocutress, interlocutrice, interlocutrix, jawsmith, keynoter, lecturer, orator, palaverer, panelist, parleyer, patterer, public speaker, rabble-rouser, ranter, sayer, show-off, speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spellbinder, spieler, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter, swaggerer, tub-thumper, utterer, windbag

  Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. -KM