speech

Roget category 582

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#582. Speech

noun

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^†.

verb

speak of — say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to — utter forth, pour forth — breathe, let fall, come out with — rap out, blurt out have on one's lips — have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue.
break silence — open one's lips, open one's mouth — lift one's voice, raise one's voice — give the tongue, wag the tongue — talk, outspeak^† — put in a word or two, hold forth — make a speech, deliver a speech etc. n. — speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs — have one's say, say one's say — spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage — expatiate etc. (speak at length) 573 — speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.S.].
soliloquize etc. 589 — tell etc. (inform) 527 — speak to etc. 586 — talk together etc. 588.
be eloquent etc. adj. — have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab etc. n.. pass one's lips, escape one's lips — fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.

adjective

speaking &c. — spoken etc. v. — oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken — eloquent, elocutionary — oratorical, rhetorical — declamatory — grandiloquent etc. 577 — talkative etc. 584 — Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.

adverb

orally etc. adj. — by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.

phrase

quoth he, said he &c. — action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; pour the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]; she speaks poignards and every word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]; speech is but broken light upon the depth of the speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken" [G. Eliot]; to try thy eloquence now 'tis time" [Antony and Cleopatra].

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