- an act of uttering; vocal expression.
- manner of speaking; power of speaking: His very utterance was spellbinding.
- something uttered; a word or words uttered; a cry, animal's call, or the like.
- any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence: it may be coextensive with a sentence.
- a public sale of goods.
- the utmost extremity, especially death.
- something uttered, such as a statement
- the act or power of uttering or the ability to utter
- an element of spoken language, esp a sentence
- the bitter end (esp in the phrase to the utterance)