WELL-SPOKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-spoken mean? 

• WELL-SPOKEN (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-SPOKEN has 1 sense:

1. speaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly

  Familiarity information: WELL-SPOKEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-SPOKEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly

Context example:

a few well-spoken words on civic pride

Similar:

articulate (expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)

 Context examples 

She was a very respectable, well-spoken young woman, sir, and I saw no harm in letting her have a peep.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be, continued he; asked more questions about the house, and terms, and taxes, than the Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with business; and moreover, Sir Walter, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country, any more than her husband; that is to say, she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once; she told me so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back at Monkford.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)