speak to

verb

Etymology

First used in 1610 in the sense of 'discuss'. Use for the meaning of 'bespeak' is attested since the 1960s.

1
To give evidence regarding something
To give evidence regarding something; to attest or provide evidence for; to bespeak.
- This definitely speaks to the fact that at Georgetown, beginning at the admissions process, you're not a number but a real person.
2
To address a particular topic.
- Education for being speaks to what grows within the person himself
3
To (figuratively) resonate with
To (figuratively) resonate with; to feel emotionally relevant to.
- His music really speaks to me.
- With its pastel cover and pro-LGBTQ+ anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” Lover got a ton of airplay in that two-bedroom apartment. And the breakup songs—“Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “I Forgot That You Existed”—certainly spoke to me.

No curated loop yet for speak to. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA