speech

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/spiːt͡ʃ/

noun 5verb 1

Collocations

(noun.) speaking

ADJ

careful, clear, clipped | casual | impaired

slurred

After the accident, the patient's slurred speech gradually improved with therapy.

connected, continuous, fluent | natural, normal, ordinary | spontaneous | direct | indirect, reported

free

In many democracies, citizens enjoy the right to free speech and can criticize their government without fear.

conversational, everyday | children's, female, human, etc. | middle-class, working-class, etc.

VERB + SPEECH

have

Every child should have the opportunity to have speech therapy if they need it.

SPEECH + NOUN

act | style | defect, impairment, impediment | therapist, therapy

community

Linguists study how words change across different speech communities around the world.

PREP

in ~

When the teacher asked him to repeat what happened, he told the story in direct speech.

PHRASES

a figure of speech

When he said she had a heart of stone, he was using a figure of speech.

freedom of speech

In many democracies, freedom of speech is considered one of the most important basic rights.

the power of speech

The power of speech helped her convince the jury of her innocence.

(noun.) formal talk

ADJ

acceptance, after-dinner, Budget, campaign, conference, farewell, inaugural

The new president delivered an inspiring inaugural speech that outlined her vision for the country.

maiden

The new senator delivered her maiden speech to a packed chamber last week.

VERB + SPEECH

deliver, give, make

broadcast

The president's speech was broadcast live on television last night.

write

PREP

in a/the ~

~ about/on

The professor gave an interesting speech about climate change at the conference yesterday.

~ to

The president delivered an important speech to the nation about climate change.

Definitions

noun

The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.

He had a bad speech impediment.

After the accident she lost her speech.

The act of speaking, a certain style of it.

It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.

Her speech was soft and lilting.

A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.

The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.

The constant design of both these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point.

A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.

The speche of Englande is a base speche to other noble speches, as Italion, Castylion, and Frenche; howbeit the speche of Englande of late dayes is amended.

Language used orally, rather than in writing.

This word is mostly used in speech.

verb

To make (a speech); to harangue.

I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.

So to Speeching he did go, / And like a Man of Senſe, / He certainly ſaid Ay or No,

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the mental faculty or power of vocal communication

language

noun — a lengthy rebuke

lecture

noun — words making up the dialogue of a play

words

noun — your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself o

delivery

noun — (language) communication by word of mouth

language

noun — the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an au

address

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

speech is silver, silence is golden

Not saying anything is often better than speaking too much or saying something inappropriate.

speech is silver, but silence is golden

Alternative form of speech is silver, silence is golden.

speech is silver, silence is gold

Alternative form of speech is silver, silence is golden.

Example Bank

He had a bad speech impediment.

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After the accident she lost her speech.

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All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the

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I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.

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So to Speeching he did go, / And like a Man of Senſe, / He certainly ſaid Ay or No,

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Two lawyers who had come over from Williamsburg to make speeches in honor of Battery Dan were told by Lawyer William J. Caffrey that only Manhattanites would be allowed to speak. “If you let my friend

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