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)
588.
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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)
492.
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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.
— 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,
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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