turn to

1. 1.

   speak to

   “He addressed the crowd outside the window”

   Synonymsaddress

   Broadercommunicate

   Narroweraddress
2. 2.

   direct one's interest or attention towards; go into

   “The student turned to the teacher for help”

   “People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium”

Questions about turn to

What does turn to mean?

turn to means "speak to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for turn to?

Close synonyms include address. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turn to a common word?

turn to is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.