speech
/spiːt͡ʃ/
The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate; The act of speaking, a certain style of it; A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person
- plural
- speeches
Meanings
- 1
The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate
It was a good speech.
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His speech was too short.
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- 2
The act of speaking, a certain style of it
- 3
A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person
- 4
A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a languagerare
- 5
Language used orally, rather than in writingrare
- 6
An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speechrare
- 7
Public talk, news, gossip, rumourrare