hold forth
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I bestrode the courtroom entranceway, holding forth on my merits to the assembled press."
- "Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents."
- "The girls all liked to hear him talk. They often gathered in a little circle while he sat on a bench, and held forth to them, laughing."
- "[…]they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans."
- "Warmed to the woman somewhat, I admit it. She holds forth like a man and smokes myrrhy cigarettes through a rhino-horn holder."