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speech
Found in thesaurus: speech act, auditory communication, vocalization, utterance, speech production, speaking, expressive style, style, reproval, rebuke, reproof, reprehension, reprimand, line, module, faculty, mental faculty
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speech
n.
speaking ability; something that is communicated orally, something that is spoken; dialogue, conversation; manner in which one speaks; dialect; study of oral communication
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Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually about 1,000 different words) vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units differ, creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers are able to communicate in two or more of them, hence being polyglots. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also provide humans with the ability to sing.
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speech
Noun
1. the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
(synonym) address
(hypernym) speech act
(hyponym) epilogue, epilog
(part-meronym) body
(derivation) address, speak
2. (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
(synonym) speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
(hypernym) auditory communication
(hyponym) words
(classification) language, linguistic communication
3. something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"
(hypernym) utterance, vocalization
(derivation) talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
4. the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
(hypernym) speaking, speech production
(derivation) talk, speak
5. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
(synonym) manner of speaking, delivery
(hypernym) expressive style, style
(hyponym) address
(part-holonym) paralanguage, paralinguistic communication
6. a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
(synonym) lecture, talking to
(hypernym) rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
(hyponym) sermon, preaching
(derivation) speechify
7. words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"
(synonym) actor's line, words
(hypernym) line
(hyponym) aside
(part-holonym) dialogue, dialog
8. the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
(synonym) language
(hypernym) faculty, mental faculty, module
(part-meronym) lexis
(derivation) speak, talk
(class) verbalize, verbalise
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speech
nm.
(Informal) speech
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speech
n.
speech, speaking ability; something that is communicated orally, something that is spoken
