Speech
[spiːtʃ] or [spitʃ]
Definition
(noun.) (language) communication by word of mouth; 'his speech was garbled'; 'he uttered harsh language'; 'he recorded the spoken language of the streets'.
(noun.) the exchange of spoken words; 'they were perfectly comfortable together without speech'.
(noun.) something spoken; 'he could hear them uttering merry speeches'.
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Definition
(n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
(n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.
(n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
(n.) Talk; mention; common saying.
(n.) formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
(n.) ny declaration of thoughts.
(v. i. & t.) To make a speech; to harangue.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Articulate utterance.[2]. Language, tongue, vernacular, idiom, dialect, LINGO.[3]. Talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, oral communication.[4]. Oration, discourse, address, harangue.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Address, oration, harangue, discourse,[See COGITATE]
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Definition
n. that which is spoken: language: the power of speaking: manner of speech oration: any declaration of thoughts: mention: colloquy: conference.—ns. Speech′-craft the science of language: the gift of speech; Speech′-crī′er one who hawked the broadsides containing the dying speeches of persons executed once common; Speech′-day the public day at the close of a school year.—adj. Speech′ful loquacious.—ns. Speechificā′tion the act of making harangues; Speech′ifīer.—v.i. Speech′ify to make speeches harangue (implying contempt).—adj. Speech′less destitute or deprived of the power of speech.—adv. Speech′lessly.—ns. Speech′lessness; Speech′-māk′er one accustomed to speak in public; Speech′-māk′ing a formal speaking before an assembly; Speech′-read′ing the art of following spoken words by observing the speaker's lips as taught to deaf-mutes.
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Examples
- I beg you will not do anything of the kind, Tertius, said Rosamond, looking at him with something more marked than usual in her speech. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- After this strange speech, she lay silent for some time. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Two things displeased Cedric in this speech. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His speech had been whispered, broken, and indistinct; but by a great effort he had made it plain enough to be unmistakeable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The idea did not originate in my own discernment, I am bound to confess, but in a speech of Rosa Dartle's. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Another pause therefore of many minutes' duration, succeeded this speech, and Lucy was still the first to end it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and hesitation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She paused again, a little breathless with the unwonted length of her speech, and sat with her lips slightly parted and a deep blush on her cheeks. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Here Sam sat down with a pleasant smile, and his speech having been vociferously applauded, the company broke up. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Ancient remains point to a much wider distribution of the Basque speech and people over Spain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She held her breath to hear the end of his speech. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Crispin listened to this speech without moving a muscle, but a strange look came into his eyes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet int ellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You have no idea how these enigmatic speeches pique my curiosity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They made speeches, and passed resolutions, and put their names down, and printed off thousands of prospectuses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Rosamond had a placid but strong answer to such speeches. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Papers containing reports of these speeches immediately reached the Northern States, and they were republished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We had one of those celebrated dinners that only Mr. Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I only puzzle them, and oblige them to make civil speeches. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- These speeches of Mr. Davis were not long in reaching Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Speeches were in order, but it is doubtful whether it would have been safe just then to make other than patriotic ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Of all his playful speeches (playful, yet always fully meaning what they expressed) none seemed to be more to the taste of Mr. Jarndyce than this. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Only one of my stupid speeches. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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