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speech  (spch)

n.

1.

a. The faculty or act of speaking.

b. The faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words.

2. Something spoken; an utterance.

3. Vocal communication; conversation.

4.

a. A talk or public address: "The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance" Ruth Gordon.

b. A printed copy of such an address.

5. One's habitual manner or style of speaking.

6. The language or dialect of a nation or region: American speech.

7. The sounding of a musical instrument.

8. The study of oral communication, speech sounds, and vocal physiology.

9. Archaic Rumor.

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[Middle English speche, from Old English sprc, spc.]

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speech

Noun

1. the ability to speak: the loss of speech

2. spoken language: Doran's lack of coherent speech

3. a talk given to an audience: a speech to parliament

4. a person's manner of speaking: her speech was extremely slow

5. a national or regional language or dialect: Canadian speech [Old English spēc]

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Speech

See also language; pronunciation; rhetoric and rhetorical devices; sound.

acyrology

1. an incorrectness in diction.
2. cacology. — acyrological, adj.

alogy, alogia

Medicine. an inability to speak, especially as the result of a brain lesion.

aphasia

Pathology. an impairment or loss of the faculty of understanding or using spoken or written language. — aphasiac, n. — aphasic, n., adj.

aphonia, aphony

loss of the power of speech; dumbness. — aphonic, — apho-nous, adj.

aphrasia

loss or absence of the power of speech.

biloquism

the ability to speak in two distinct voices. — biloquist, n.

cacology

1. a defectively produced speech.
2. socially unacceptable enunciation.
3. nonconformist pronunciation.

deafmutism

the condition of lacking both hearing and speech. Also called surdomutism. — deafmute, n.

dyslogy, dyslogia

Pathology. an inability to express ideas or reasoning in speech because of a mental disorder.

dysphasia

an impaired state of the power of speech or of the ability to comprehend language, caused by injury to the brain.

dysphemia

any neurotic disorder of speech; stammering.

dysphonia

speech problems resulting from damage to or malformation of the speech organs.

echolalia

the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of sounds and words heard from others. — echolalic, adj.

elocution

1. the art of public speaking.
2. the manner or quality of a person’s speech. — elocutionist, n.

galimatias

confused or unintelligible speech; gibberish.

glossograph

an instrument for recording the movements of the tongue during speech.

glossolalia

an ecstatic, usually unintelligible speech uttered in the worship services of any of several sects stressing emotionality and religious fervor. Also called speaking in tongues. — glossolalist, n.

glossophobia

an abnormal fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.

gutturalism

a throaty manner of speaking.

hyperphasia

a condition in which control of the speech organs is lost, resulting in meaningless and deranged speech.

labialism

a tendency to articulate sounds with the lips rounded.

lalomania

an abnormal love of speech or talking.

lalopathology

the branch of medical science that studies disorders of speech. — lalopathy, n. — lalopathic, adj.

lalophobia

an abnormal fear of speaking.

logopedia, logopaedia

Pathology. the science that studies speech defects and their treatment. Also logopedics, logopaedics. — logopedie, logopaedic, adj.

mogilalia

a pathological speech problem, as stammering.

mutism

Psychiatry. a conscious or unconscious refusal to make verbal responses to questions, present in some mental disorders.

neolalia

any speech that contains new words unintelligible to a hearer. See also psychology.

obmutescence

Obsolete, loss of speech or the act of keeping silence.

paralalia

a speech defect or disorder in which sounds are distorted.

paralogia

a disorder of the faculty of reasoning, characterized by discon-nected and meaningless speech.

paraphasia

aphasia characterized by the inability to find the correct words to express meaning.

paraphrasia

garbled or incoherent speech, the result of aphasia.

pectoriloquism, pectoriloquy

speaking from the chest, a phenomenon observed with a stethoscope and caused by the voice reverberating in the lung cavities as a result of disease. — pectoriloquial, pectoriloquous, adj.

psellism

the condition of stuttering or stammering.

psittacism

a mechanical, repetitive, and usually meaningless speech.

surdomutism

deafmutism. — surdomute, n.

susurration

1. the act or process of whispering.
2. a whispering sound or soft rustling. Also susurrus. — susurrant, susurrous, adj.

tachyphrasia

an abnormality of speech characterized by extreme volubility.

tautophony

repetition of the same sound. — tautophonic, tautophonical, adj.

traulism

a stammering and stuttering speech.

ventrilocution

ventriloquism.

ventriloquism

the art or practice of speaking so that the voice seems not to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a mechanical doll. Also called ventriloquy, ventrilocution, gastriloquism. — ventriloquist, n. — ven-triloquistic, adj.

verbigeration

meaningless repetition of words and phrases.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	speech - the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" address body - the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short" introduction - the first section of a communication close, closing, ending, conclusion, end - the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." speech act - the use of language to perform some act allocution - (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts colloquium - an address to an academic meeting or seminar dithyramb - a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing impromptu - an extemporaneous speech or remark; "a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated" inaugural, inaugural address - an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) lecture, public lecture, talk - a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications" litany - any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures" oratory - addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory" oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking, speaking - delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking" preaching, sermon, discourse - an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
	2.	speech - (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, language language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" auditory communication - communication that relies on hearing words - the words that are spoken; "I listened to his words very closely" orthoepy, pronunciation - the way a word or a language is customarily spoken; "the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"; "that is the correct pronunciation" conversation - the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. give-and-take, discussion, word - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" locution, saying, expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community idiolect - the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life monologue - a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) magic spell, magical spell, charm, spell - a verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" dictation - speech intended for reproduction in writing monologue, soliloquy - speech you make to yourself
	3.	speech - something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" utterance, vocalization - the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
	4.	speech - the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech" speaking, speech production - the utterance of intelligible speech
	5.	speech - 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" manner of speaking, delivery expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" address - the manner of speaking to another individual; "he failed in his manner of address to the captain" catch - a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) paralanguage, paralinguistic communication - the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings tongue - a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue" shibboleth - a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people tone, tone of voice - the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" elocution - an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture prosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language inflection, modulation - a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
	6.	speech - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" talking to, lecture rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face" preaching, sermon - a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him" curtain lecture - a private lecture to a husband by his wife
	7.	speech - words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech" actor's line, words dialog, dialogue - the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction aside - a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage cue - an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech monologue - a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor soliloquy - a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections throwaway - words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"
	8.	speech - the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" language faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind lexis - all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function lexicon, mental lexicon, vocabulary - a language user's knowledge of words verbalise, verbalize - convert into a verb; "many English nouns have become verbalized"

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speech

noun 1. communication, talk, conversation, articulation, discussion, dialogue, intercourse

noun 2. diction, pronunciation, articulation, delivery, fluency, inflection, intonation, elocution, enunciation

noun 3. language, tongue, utterance, jargon, dialect, idiom, parlance, articulation, diction, lingo (informal) enunciation

noun 4. talk, address, lecture, discourse, harangue, homily, oration, spiel (informal) disquisition, whaikorero N.Z.

Translations

speech [spiːtʃ] n (faculty) → habla (= formal talk); discurso (= words); palabras fpl (= manner of speaking); forma de hablar (= language); idioma m; lenguaje m

speech [spiːtʃ] n (= faculty) → parole f (= talk); discours m, allocution f (= manner of speaking); façon f de parler, langage m (= language); langage m (= enunciation); élocution f

speech [spiːtʃ] n → Sprache f;

(manner of speaking) → Sprechweise f;

(enunciation) → (Aus)sprache f;

(formal talk) (Theat) → Rede f

speech [spiːtʃ] n (faculty) → parola (= talk); discorso (= manner of speaking); parlata (= language); linguaggio (= enunciation); elocuzione f

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speech

n speech [spiːtʃ]

1 (the act of) saying words, or the ability to say words Speech is one method of communication between people.spraakحَديث، كَلامговорřečtaledie Spracheομιλίαhablakõnelemine, kõnevõimeگفتارpuhuminenparoleדִיבּוּרबोलीgovorenje, sposobnost govorenjabeszédwicaramálil parlare, linguaggio話す力말하기, 말하는 능력kalba, šnekarunāšanabertuturhet sprekentale(evne)mowafalavorbireречьrečgovorgovortalการพูดkonuşma言語мова, мовленняگویائی، بولنے کی صلاحیتkhả năng, hành động nói言语

2 the words said His speech is full of colloquialisms.spraakكَلِمات، ألفاظсловоřečsprogdie Spracheομιλία, λόγοςpalabraskõne, keelسخنpuhelangageנְאוּםबोलीgovorenjebeszédperkataanmálfarmodo di parlare話し하는 말kalbaruna; valodapertuturantaalmål, språkjęzykdiscursolimbajречьrečgovorgovortalคำพูดkonuşma, söz說話моваبولے گیے الفاظlời nói说话

3 manner or way of speaking His speech is very slow.spraakطَريقَة الكَلامречzpůsob řečimåde at tale pådas Sprechenομιλίαlenguaje, forma de hablarkõneviisگويشpuhetapafaçon de parlerסִגנוֹן דִיבּוּרबोलने का तरीकाnačin govorabeszéd(mód)cara bicaramælimodo di parlare話し方말씨, 말투šnekarunapertuturannspraakmål, måte å snakke påmowafalamod de a vorbiманера говоритьspôsob rečinačin govorjenjagovortalลักษณะการพูดkonuşma biçimi, ağız說話方式вимова; манера говоритиبولنے کا اندازcách nói , lối nói说话方式

4 a formal talk given to a meeting etc parliamentary speeches.toespraakخِطابизказванеprojevtale; -taledie Redeεπίσημος λόγος, αγόρευσηdiscursokõneسخنرانيpuhediscoursנְאוּםकिसी बैठक में दिया गया औपचारिक भाषणgovorbeszédpidatoræðadiscorso演説연설, 담화kalbarunaucapantoespraaktalemowadiscursospeech, discursречь; выступлениеprejavgovorgovortal, anförandeคำปราศรัย; สุนทรพจน์konuşma, nutuk演講виступ; промоваتقریر، خطابbài diễn thuyết演讲

adj ˈspeechless

unable to speak, often because of surprise, shock etc He looked at her in speechless amazement.sprakeloosفاقِد النُّطْق، مَعْقود اللسانонемялněmýmålløssprachlosάφωνοςmudo, enmudecidosõnatumykistynytmuetמוּכֶּה אֶלֶםअवाकbez riječi, zanijemionématidak bisa bicaraorðlausmuto, senza parola口もきけない말로 표현할 수 없는, 형언할 수 없는bežadismēms; bez valodasbungkam; tidak dapat berkata-katasprakeloosmålløs, taus, stumoniemiałysem falamut, fără glasонемевший; безмолвныйnemý, onemený, zatíchnutýbrez besedzanemeomållösซึ่งไม่สามารถพูดได้dili tutulmuş說不出話的німий; безмовнийدم بخود، گونگاmất tiếng, không nói được说不出话的

adv ˈspeechlessly

sprakeloosبدون قُدْرَةٍ على الكَلام، بِلِسان مَعْقودбезмълвноbeze slovamålløstsprachlosάφωναsin una palabrasõnatultmykistyneenäsans un motלְלא יְכוֹלֶת לְדַבֵּרगूंगेपन से, मौनता से, भौचक्कापन सेnijemoszótlanuldengan membisuorðlaustsenza parola口もきけずに형언할 수 없게, 말할 수 없을 정도로netekęs žadobez valodas; bez vārdiemdengan bungkamsprakeloosmålløst, taustw osłupieniusilenciosamentefără vorbe; mutбезмолвноbez slovanemozanemelomållösอย่างไม่สามารถพูดได้dili tutulmuş bir şekilde說不出話來безмовно, онімілоخاموشی سےmất tiếng, không nói được说不出话来

n ˈspeechlessness

sprakeloosheidعَدَم القُدْرَةِ على الكَلام، إنْعِقاد اللسانбезмълвиеněmotamålløsheddie Sprachlosigkeitβουβαμάραmutismosõnatussanattomuusmutismeאֶלֶםगूंगापन, मौनताzanijemjelostnémaság, szótlanságkebisuanþögli, þögnmutismo口もきけないこと형언할 수 없음žado praradimasmēmums; valodas zudumskebungkamansprakeloosheidmålløshet, taushetosłupieniemutismomuţenieбезмолвиеnemotanemostzanemelostmållöshetไม่สามารถพูดได้dili tutulmuşluk說不出話втрата мовленняبے زبانیsự mất tiếng, sự không nói được说不出话