utterance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ut=ter=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

utterance, n. 

•  The act of uttering.  [1913 Webster]

  "At length gave utterance to these words."  [1913 Webster]
•  Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.  [1913 Webster]

  "They . . . began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."  [1913 Webster]

  "O, how unlike
  To that large utterance of the early gods!"  [1913 Webster]

utterance, n. [F. outrance. See Outrance.].

 The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.  [1913 Webster]
"Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our men to skirmish one against another to the utterance."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

utterance, n.
1 the act or an instance of uttering.
2 a thing spoken.
3 a the power of speaking. b a manner of speaking.
4 Linguistics an uninterrupted chain of spoken or written words not necessarily corresponding to a single or complete grammatical unit.

THESAURUS

utterance

Parthian shot, address, adjectival phrase, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, answer, antonym, apostrophe, articulation, assertion, asseveration, attack, averment, avouchment, avowal, clause, comment, conclusion, construction, crack, creed, declaration, delivery, dictum, enunciation, exclamation, expression, free form, greeting, headed group, homograph, homonym, homophone, idiom, idiotism, interjection, ipse dixit, lexeme, linguistic act, linguistic form, locution, logos, manifesto, manner of speaking, mention, metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, note, noun phrase, observation, paragraph, parol, parole, peculiar expression, period, phonation, phrasal idiom, phrase, polysyllable, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, pronunciation, proposition, protest, protestation, question, reflection, remark, say, say-so, saying, sentence, sequence of phonemes, set phrase, speaking, speech act, stance, stand, standard phrase, statement, string, subjoinder, syllable, synonym, syntactic structure, term, the spoken word, thought, tongue, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, utterance string, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verbum, vocable, vocalization, voice, voicing, vouch, way of speaking, word, word of mouth, word-group

ROGET THESAURUS

utterance

Voice

N voice, vocality, organ, lungs, bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice, intonation, tone of voice, vocalization, cry, strain, utterance, prolation, exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis, enunciation, articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper, delivery, accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation, homonym, orthoepy, cacoepy, euphony, gastriloquism, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, polyphonism, polyphonist, phonology, vocal, phonetic, oral, ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous, euphonious, how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman, the organ of the soul, thy voice is a celestial melody.