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public speaking

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public speaking
n.
The act, art, or process of making effective speeches before an audience.

public speaker n.

public speaking
n
(Literature / Rhetoric) the art or practice of making speeches to large audiences
public speaker  n
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Noun1.public speakingpublic speaking - delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking"
recitation, recital, reading - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
speech, address - the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
disputation, public debate, debate - the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)
Translations
public speaking narte f oratoria
public speaking narte f oratoria


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About twenty of us formed a society for the purpose of utilizing this time in debate or in practice in public speaking.
neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open
It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment.
 
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