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speech

noun

1 speech

The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.

synonym: address.

Roget 586: allocution, alloquy, address; speech etc. 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.    [Feigned dialogue] ... show more

Dutch: oratie, prevelement, rede, redevoering, speech, toespraak
Polish: przemówienie, mowa, przemowa

2 speech

language Communication by word of mouth:
— His speech was garbled.

synonyms: language, oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication.

Roget 560: language; phraseology etc. 569; speech etc. 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; ... show more

Dutch: spreektaal
Polish: mówienie, mowa

3 speech

Something spoken.

4 speech

The exchange of spoken words.

5 speech

Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally:
— Her speech was barren of southernisms.
— I detected a slight accent in his speech.

synonyms: delivery, manner of speaking.

Roget 582: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.    oration, ... show more

Dutch: spreektrant

6 speech

A lengthy rebuke.

synonyms: lecture, talking to.

Dutch: berisping, reprimande, standje, terechtwijzing, verwijt

7 speech

Words making up the dialogue of a play:
— The actor forgot his speech.

synonyms: actor's line, words.

Dutch: claus

8 speech

The mental faculty or power of vocal communication.

synonym: language.

Dutch: spraak, spraakvermogen, stem
Polish: mowa


Moby thesaurus: ESP, address, after-dinner speech, alliteration, allocution, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, answer, answering, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe ... show more.

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