From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishutteranceut‧ter‧ance /ˈʌtərəns/ noun formal1[countable]SAY something you say
Politicians are judged by their public utterances.2[uncountable]SAY the action of saying somethingExamples from the Corpusutterance• An utterance is said to have illocutionary force and perlocutionary force.• Dozens of reporters are always nearby to record his every step and utterance.• Many of his utterances were, however, sermoncommonplaces, to which parallels can be found in other contemporarypreaching.• Such utterances, especially from a supposedly left-wing government, are revolutionary.• However, the utterance only succeeds in having this function if certainexternal conditions are fulfilled.
