Speech

Quick meaning: Speech is a noun meaning (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.

Meaning

(uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
2. (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
3. (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
4. (uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
5. (grammar) An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
6. (uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To make (a speech); to harangue.

Example Sentences

He had a bad speech impediment.

Her speech was soft and lilting.

After the accident she lost her speech.

It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.

Word Forms

• speeches
• speach
• speeching
• speeched

Synonyms for speech

Depending on context, synonyms include locution, parlance, allocution, monologue, oration, soliloquy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include language, lecture, talking to, delivery, words, wording.

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