intransitive verb. To utter aloud; pronounce.

intransitive verb. To express in words.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To state as an opinion or judgment; declare.

intransitive verb. To state as a determination of fact.

intransitive verb. To report or maintain; allege.

intransitive verb. To repeat or recite.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To indicate; show.

intransitive verb. To give nonverbal expression to; signify or embody.

intransitive verb. To suppose; assume.

intransitive verb. To make a statement or express an opinion or judgment.

noun. A turn or chance to speak.

noun. The right or power to influence or make a decision.

noun. Something said; a statement.

adverb. Approximately.

adverb. For instance.

interjection. Used to express surprise or appeal for someone's attention.

idiom. (I say) Used preceding an utterance to call attention to it.

idiom. (I say) Used as an exclamation of surprise, delight, or dismay.

idiom. (that is to say) In other words.

idiom. (to say nothing of) And there is no need to mention. Used to allude to things that fill out an idea or argument.

idiom. (you can say that again) Used to express strong agreement with what has just been said.

To assay; test.

To essay; attempt; endeavor; try.

To utter, express, declare, or pronounce in words, either orally or in writing; speak.

To tell; make known or utter in words.

To recount; repeat; rehearse; recite: as, to say a lesson or one's prayers; to say mass; to say grace.

To call; declare or suppose to be.

To utter as an opinion; decide; judge and determine.

To suppose; assume to be true or correct; take for granted: often in an imperative form, in the sense of ‘let us say,’ ‘we may say,’ ‘we shall say’: as, the number left behind was not great, say only five.

To gainsay; contradict; answer.

Synonyms Say, Speak, Tell, State. Each of these words has its peculiar idiomatic uses. We speak an oration, and tell a story, but do not say either of them. We say prayers or a lesson, but do not speak or tell them, although the one praying may tell his beads. Say is the most common word before a quotation direct or indirect: Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones” (Gen. ii. 23); “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves” (1 John i. 8). Tell is often exactly synonymous with say to: as, tell (say to) him that I was called away. Speak draws its meanings from the idea of making audible; tell, from that of communicating. Tell is the only one of these words that may express a command. State is often erroneously used for simply saying: as, he stated that he could not come: state always implies detail, as of reasons, particulars; to state a case is to give it with particularity.

To speak; declare; assert; express an opinion: as, so he says.

To make answer; reply.

noun. A kind of serge. In the sixteenth century it seems to have been a fine thin cloth used for outer garments.

noun. A strainer for milk.

noun. An obsolete preterit of see.

noun. A kind of silk or satin.

noun. In poker, the turn of a player to declare whether or not he will ante.

noun. Assay; trial by sample; sample; taste.

noun. A cut made in a dead deer in order to find out how fat it is.

noun. Tried quality; temper; proof.

noun. In hunting, to make a cut down the belly of a dead deer in order to see how fat it is.

noun. What one has to say; a speech; a story; something said; hence, an affirmation; a declaration; a statement.

noun. Word; assurance.

noun. A maxim; a saying; a saw.

noun. Turn to say something, make a proposition, or reply: as, “It is now my say.”

imperative. Saw.

transitive verb. To try; to assay.