spoke
pronunciation
How to pronounce spoke in British English:
UK [spəʊk]
How to pronounce spoke in American English:
US [ spoʊk]
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- Noun:
- support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
- one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
Word Origin
- spoke
- spoke: [OE] Like its relatives German speiche and Dutch speek, spoke goes back to prehistoric Germanic *spaikōn. This was derived from the base *spaik-, *speik-, which also produced English spike.=> spike
- spoke (n.)
- "radius of a wheel," Old English spaca "spoke of a wheel, radius," related to spicing "large nail," from Proto-Germanic *spaikon (cognates: Old Saxon speca, Old Frisian spake, Dutch spaak, Old High German speicha, German speiche "spoke"), of uncertain origin, probably from PIE *spei- "sharp point" (see spike (n.1)).
Example
- 1. The more she spoke , the angrier they got .
- 2. Rooney still spoke his mind however .
- 3. The two spoke only a few times prior to getting married .
- 4. The language they spoke was unrecognized and they ate only bean pods .
- 5. As he spoke he filmed the crowd with his phone .