hold forth

2 definitions found

hold forth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hold forth
      v 1: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker
           dissertated about the social politics in 18th century
           England" [syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate]

hold forth - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "hold forth":
     debate, declaim, demagogue, discourse, elocute, explain, exposit,
     expound, extend, harangue, hold out, lecture, monologize,
     monopolize the conversation, moralize, mouth, offer, orate,
     out-herod Herod, perorate, point a moral, preach, prefer, present,
     proffer, put up, rabble-rouse, rant, read, read a lesson, recite,
     rodomontade, say aside, sermonize, soliloquize, spiel, spout,
     submit, tender, think aloud, think out loud, tub-thump