“talked” is a form of
talk
UK /tɔːk/ · US /tɔk/ verb, noun
Forms talks talking talked talkest talkedst talketh talke taulke
- verb (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech. “Let's sit down and talk.”
- verb (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about. “They sat down to talk business.”
- verb (transitive) To speak (a certain language). “We talk French sometimes.”
- verb (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned. “Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.”
- verb (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others. “Suppose he talks?”
- verb (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself. “I am not the one to talk.”
- verb (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal. “People will talk.”
- verb (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- noun A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal. “We need to have a talk about your homework.”
- noun A lecture. “There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.”
- noun (uncountable) Gossip; rumour. “There's been talk lately about the two of them.”
- noun (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion. “She is the talk of the day.”
- noun A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child. “Have you had the talk with Jay yet? I found a condom in his room.”
- noun (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- noun (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims. “The party leader's speech was all talk.”
- noun (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter. “The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.”
Synonyms
chat communicate dictate klatch let on make known orate say speak speechify tell write up conference debate discussion meeting blabber blather conversation gossip talking lecture public lecture talk of the town utter mouth verbalize verbalise spill spill the beans
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English *tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-West Germanic *talkōn, from Proto-Germanic *talkōną (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell + -k.
Cognate with Low German taalken (“to chatter, gossip, talk”). Related also to Bavarian zoin (“to pay”), Cimbrian zaln (“to pay”), Dutch talen (“to care, long; to speak; to say”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Mòcheno zoln (“to pay”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tale (“to talk, speak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Norwegian Nynorsk tala (“to speak, talk”); also Latin dolus (“deceit, deception, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery; malice; artifice, device, stratagem”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “deceit, trick; wiles; bait”), Armenian տող (toġ, “line (in a text)”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- (“to talk”) (due to Grimm's law), which is the source of loquacious.
From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
- verb To confer; to reason; to consult.
- verb To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
- verb To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
Etymology [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkoti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see Tale, v. i. & n.).]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “talk”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details