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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]
dialogism † .
platform
etc.
542 plank ;
audience
etc.
(interview)
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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 ;
King's English ,
Queen's English ;
dialect
etc.
563 confusion of tongues ,
Babel ,
pasigraphie † ;
pantomime
etc.
(signs)
550 onomatopoeia ;
betacism † ,
mimmation ,
myatism † ,
nunnation † ;
pasigraphy † .
lexicology ,
philology ,
glossology † ,
glottology † ;
linguistics ,
chrestomathy † ;
paleology † ,
paleography ;
comparative grammar .
literature ,
letters ,
polite literature ,
belles lettres [Fr.] ,
muses ,
humanities ,
literae humaniores [Lat.] ,
republic of letters ,
dead languages ,
classics ;
genius of language ;
scholarship
etc.
(scholar)
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Dutch: spreektaal Polish: mówienie, mowa
3 speech 4 speech The exchange of spoken words.
5 speech Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally:— Her speech was barren of southernisms.
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 ,
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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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
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