language Communication by word of mouth.
synonyms: language, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication.
Roget 582:
speech,
faculty of speech;
locution,
talk,
parlance,
verbal intercourse,
prolation†,
oral communication,
word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle;
effusion.
oration,
recitation,
delivery,
say,
speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade,
formal speech,
peroration;
speechifying;
soliloquy
etc.
589;
allocution
etc.
586;
conversation
etc.
588;
salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory;
elocution,
eloquence;
rhetoric,
declamation;
grandiloquence,
multiloquence†;
burst of eloquence;
facundity†;
flow of words,
command of words,
command of language;
copia verborum [Lat.];
power of speech,
gift of the gab;
usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker
etc.
v.;
spokesman;
prolocutor,
interlocutor;
mouthpiece,
Hermes;
orator,
oratrix†,
oratress†;
Demosthenes,
Cicero;
rhetorician;
stump orator,
platform orator;
speechmaker,
patterer†,
improvisatore†.
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Roget 588:
conversation,
interlocution;
collocution†,
colloquy,
converse,
confabulation,
talk,
discourse,
verbal intercourse;
oral communication,
commerce;
dialogue,
duologue,
trialogue.
causerie,
chat,
chitchat;
small talk,
table talk,
teatable talk†,
town talk,
village talk,
idle talk;
tattle,
gossip,
tittle-tattle;
babble,
babblement†;
tripotage†,
cackle,
prittle-prattle†,
cancan,
on dit [Fr.];
talk of the town,
talk of the village.
conference,
parley,
interview,
audience,
pourparler;
tete-a-tete;
reception,
conversazione [It];
congress
etc.
(council)
696;
powwow [U.S.].
hall of audience,
durbar†.
palaver,
debate,
logomachy†,
war of words.
gossip,
tattler;
Paul Pry;
tabby;
chatterer
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
interlocutor
etc.
(spokesman)
582;
conversationist†,
dialogist†.
the feast of reason and the flow of soul"
[Pope];
mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].
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Dutch: spreektaal
Polish: mówienie, mowa