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Definition of Speech
1. Noun. The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience. "He listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
Terms within: Body, Introduction, Close, Closing, Conclusion, End, Ending
Generic synonyms: Speech Act
Specialized synonyms: Allocution, Colloquium, Dithyramb, Impromptu, Inaugural, Inaugural Address, Lecture, Public Lecture, Talk, Litany, Oratory, Oral Presentation, Public Speaking, Speaking, Speechmaking, Discourse, Preaching, Sermon
Specialized synonyms: Gettysburg Address
Derivative terms: Address, Speak, Speechify
2. Noun. (language) communication by word of mouth. "He recorded the spoken language of the streets"
Category relationships: Language, Linguistic Communication
Generic synonyms: Auditory Communication
Specialized synonyms: Words, Orthoepy, Pronunciation, Conversation, Discussion, Give-and-take, Word, Expression, Locution, Saying, Non-standard Speech, Idiolect, Monologue, Charm, Magic Spell, Magical Spell, Spell, Dictation, Monologue, Soliloquy
3. Noun. Something spoken. "He could hear them uttering merry speeches"
4. Noun. The exchange of spoken words. "They were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
5. Noun. Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally. "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
Generic synonyms: Expressive Style, Style
Specialized synonyms: Address, Catch, Tongue, Shibboleth, Tone, Tone Of Voice, Elocution, Inflection, Prosody, Inflection, Modulation
Group relationships: Paralanguage, Paralinguistic Communication
Derivative terms: Deliver
6. Noun. A lengthy rebuke. "The teacher gave him a talking to"
Generic synonyms: Rebuke, Reprehension, Reprimand, Reproof, Reproval
Specialized synonyms: Preaching, Sermon, Curtain Lecture
Derivative terms: Lecture, Speechify
7. Noun. Words making up the dialogue of a play. "The actor forgot his speech"
Group relationships: Dialog, Dialogue
Specialized synonyms: Aside, Cue, Monologue, Soliloquy, Throwaway
Generic synonyms: Line
8. Noun. The mental faculty or power of vocal communication. "Language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
Generic synonyms: Faculty, Mental Faculty, Module
Terms within: Lexis, Lexicon, Mental Lexicon, Vocabulary
Examples of category: Verbalise, Verbalize
Derivative terms: Speak
Definition of Speech
1. n. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
2. v. i. & t. To make a speech; to harangue.
Definition of Speech
1. Noun. The faculty of speech; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate. ¹
2. Noun. A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Speech
1. the faculty or act of speaking [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Speech
1. 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. "There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts." (Holder) 2. He act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation. Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips, etc, the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which move their walls. "O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage." (Chaucer) "The acts of God . . . To human ears Can nort without process of speech be told." (Milton) 3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. "People of a strange speech and of an hard language." (Ezek. Iii. 6) 4. Talk; mention; common saying. "The duke . . . Did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey." (Shak) 5. Formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. "The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point." (Swift) 6. Ny declaration of thoughts. "I. With leave of speech implored, . . . Replied." (Milton) Synonym: Harangue, language, address, oration. See Harangue, and Language. Origin: OE. Speche, AS. Spc, spr, fr. Specan, sprecan, to speak; akin to D. Spraak speech, OHG. Sprahha, G. Sprache, Sw. Sprk, Dan. Sprog. See Speak. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speech
Literary usage of Speech
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Obviously, the sensory speech center must be connected with the motor speech
center by conduction paths, and, in our early attempts at talking, the speech ..."
2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"CHAPTER X speech AS A FORM OF BEHAVIOR speech as a highly important special habit.
Among the habits developed by human beings none is so elaborate as speech ..."
3. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"CHAPTER X speech AS A FORM OF BEHAVIOR speech as a highly important special habit.
Among the habits developed by human beings none is so elaborate as speech ..."
4. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"CHAPTER X speech AS A FORM OF BEHAVIOR speech as a highly important special habit.
Among the habits developed by human beings none is so elaborate as speech ..."
5. The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori (1912)
"When, therefore, the child speaks, but before the completion of the development
of speech which renders it fixed in mechanisms already established, ..."
6. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Anne E. George, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"To this end the analysis of speech is necessary. As when we wish to perfect the
language we first start children at composition and then pass to grammatical ..."
7. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, John Albert Macy, Annie Sullivan (1905)
"CHAPTER IV speech THE two persons who have written authoritatively about Miss
Keller's speech and the way she learned it are Miss Sarah Fuller,* of the ..."