N. travel, traveling,
wayfaring, campaigning, journey,
excursion, expedition, tour,
trip, grand tour, circuit,
peregrination, discursion|,
ramble,
pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course,
ambulation, march, walk,
promenade, constitutional,
stroll,
saunter,
tramp, jog trot, turn,
stalk,
perambulation,
noctambulation,
noctambulism,
somnambulism, outing,
ride, drive, airing,
jaunt,
equitation,
horsemanship, riding,
manege, ride and tie, basophobia,
roving,
vagrancy, pererration|, marching and countermarching,
nomadism,
vagabondism,
vagabondage, hoboism,
gadding,
flit,
flitting,
migration,
emigration,
immigration, demigration|,
intermigration, wanderlust, plan,
itinerary, guide,
handbook,
guidebook, road book, baedeker,
bradshaw,
murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map,
procession,
cavalcade,
caravan,
file,
cortege, column,
vehicle, automobile, train,
bus, airplane, plane, autobus,
omnibus,
subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter,
trolley,
locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler,
depot, railway station, station
V. travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air,
flit, take wing,
migrate,
emigrate, trek,
rove,
prowl,
roam, range,
patrol, pace up and down,
traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate|,
circumambulate,
perambulate,
nomadize,
wander,
ramble,
stroll,
saunter,
hover, go one's rounds,
straggle,
gad, gad about,
expatiate, walk, march, step,
tread,
pace,
plod,
wend, go by shank's mare,
promenade,
trudge,
tramp,
stalk,
stride,
straddle,
strut, foot it, hoof it,
stump,
bundle, bowl along,
toddle,
paddle, tread a path, take horse,
ride, drive,
trot,
amble,
canter,
prance,
fisk,
frisk, caracoler,
caracole,
gallop,
embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide,
glide, coast,
skim,
skate, march in procession, file on,
defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to
Adj. traveling,
ambulatory,
itinerant,
peripatetic,
roving,
rambling,
gadding,
discursive,
vagrant,
migratory,
monadic,
circumforanean,
circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant,
locomotive,
wayfaring,
wayworn, travel-stained
Int. come along
N. diffuseness,
amplification,
dilating,
verbosity,
verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness,
polylogy,
tautology,
battology, perissology|,
pleonasm,
exuberance,
redundancy, thrice-told tale,
prolixity,
circumlocution,
ambages,
periphrase,
periphrasis, roundabout phrases,
episode,
expletive, pennya-lining, richness
V. be diffuse, run out on,
descant,
expatiate,
enlarge,
dilate,
amplify,
expand,
inflate, launch out, branch out,
rant,
maunder, prose, harp upon, dwell on, insist upon,
digress,
ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush,
perorate, spin a long yarn,
protract, spin out, swell out, draw out,
battologize Adj. diffuse,
profuse,
wordy,
verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
exuberant,
pleonastic,
lengthy,
longsome,
long-winded,
longspun, long drawn out, spun out,
protracted,
prolix, prosing,
maundering,
circumlocutory,
periphrastic,
ambagious,
roundabout,
digressive,
discursive,
excursive, loose, rambling episodic,
flatulent,
frothy Adv. diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it
N. speech, faculty of speech,
locution, talk,
parlance, verbal intercourse,
prolation, oral communication, word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle,
effusion,
oration,
recitation,
delivery, say, speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade, formal speech,
peroration,
speechifying,
soliloquy,
allocution, conversation,
salutatory,
screed,
valedictory,
oratory,
elocution, eloquence, rhetoric,
declamation,
grandiloquence,
multiloquence, burst of eloquence,
facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker,
spokesman,
prolocutor,
interlocutor,
mouthpiece,
hermes,
orator,
oratrix,
oratress,
demosthenes, cicero,
rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator,
speechmaker,
patterer,
improvisatore V. speak of, say, utter,
pronounce, deliver, give utterance to, utter forth, pour forth,
breathe, let fall, come out with, rap out, blurt out have on one's lips, have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue, break silence, open one's lips, open one's mouth, lift one's voice, raise one's voice, give the tongue, wag the tongue, talk, outspeak, put in a word or two, hold forth, make a speech, deliver a speech,
speechify,
harangue,
declaim,
stump,
flourish,
recite,
lecture,
sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs, have one's say, say one's say,
spout,
rant,
rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage,
expatiate, speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump,
soliloquize, tell, speak to, talk together, be eloquent, have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab, pass one's lips, escape one's lips, fall from the lips, fall from the mouth
Adj. speaking &c, spoken, oral,
lingual,
phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken,
eloquent,
elocutionary,
oratorical,
rhetorical,
declamatory,
grandiloquent,
talkative,
ciceronian,
nuncupative,
tullian Adv. orally, by word of mouth,
viva voce, from the lips of
Phr. quoth he, said he &c, "action is eloquence", "pour the full tide of eloquence along", "she speaks poignards and every word stabs", "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken ; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time
N. loquacity,
loquaciousness,
talkativeness,
garrulity,
multiloquence, much speaking, jaw,
gabble,
jabber,
chatter,
prate,
prattle,
cackle,
clack,
twaddle,
twattle,
rattle, caquet, caquetterie,
blabber, bavardage,
bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk,
fluency,
flippancy,
volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi,
verbosity, gift of the gab, talker,
chatterer, chatterbox,
babbler,
rattle,
ranter,
sermonizer, proser,
driveler,
blatherskite,
gossip,
magpie,
jay,
parrot,
poll,
babel, moulin a paroles
V. be loquacious, talk glibly, pour forth,
patter,
prate,
palaver, prose,
chatter,
prattle,
clack,
jabber, jaw, blather,
blatter, blether,
rattle, rattle on,
twaddle,
twattle,
babble,
gabble, outtalk, talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse,
expatiate,
gossip, din in the ears, talk at random, talk nonsense, be hoarse with talking
Adj. loquacious,
talkative,
garrulous, linguacious|,
multiloquous, largiloquent|,
chattering,
chatty,
declamatory,
open-mouthed,
fluent,
voluble,
glib,
flippant, long tongued, long winded
Adv. trippingly on the tongue,
glibly, off the reel
Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, "foul whisperings are abroad", "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!"
