speech
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.
Inflected forms:
form: speeches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: speach
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: speeches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: speeching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: speeched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: speeched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: speach
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He had a bad speech impediment.
After the accident she lost her speech.
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 present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
I was at liberty to attend to Wilbert, who I could see desired speech with me. […] As far as Bobbie and I were concerned, silence reigned, this novel twist in the scenario having wiped speech from our lips, as the expression is, but Phyllis continued vocal. […] For perhaps a quarter of a minute after he had passed from the scene the aged relative stood struggling for utterance. At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!”
gloss: The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.
Her speech was soft and lilting.
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
gloss: A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
He's going to present the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. We've been caught short as usual, and somebody has got to make a speech on ideals and the great world outside to those blasted boys, so he fits in nicely. I believe he's a very fine speaker. His only trouble is that he's stymied unless he has his speech with him and can read it. Calls it referring to his notes. […] “So that's why he's been going about looking like a dead fish. I suppose Roberta broke the engagement?” “In a speech lasting five minutes without a pause for breath.”
gloss: A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Language used orally, rather than in writing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This word is mostly used in speech.
gloss: An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The duke[…]did of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.
gloss: To make (a speech); to harangue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 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,
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 speech something,” said one of the Williamsburgers, “I will be satisfactioned mitout^([sic]) speeching.[…]”
"He wasn't one to make himself big," said Mr. Jones. "But he had something that drew the people when he was speeching... When he came down we all used to shout 'Lloyd George am byth!' You know, 'Lloyd George forever!' That was just how we felt."
Synonyms: locution
parlance
speech
Related words: speak
Derived words: acceptance speech
antispeech
audio-visual speech recognition
avoidance speech
by-speech
caretaker speech
child-directed speech
compelled speech
co-speech
counterspeech
cyberspeech
endspeech
figure of speech
finger speech
free as in speech
freedom of speech
free indirect speech
free speech
free speech zone
furspeech
hate-speech
hate speech
helium speech
impulsive speech
indirect speech
keynote speech
King's speech
liberty of speech
maiden speech
midspeech
misspeech
nonspeech
oblique speech
opening speech
part of speech
plain speech
prespeech
pressure of speech
protospeech
Queen's speech
running speech
second-hand speech
speech act
speech balloon
speech-based picking
speech bubble
speech community
speechcraft
speech-crier
speech day
speech disfluency
speech disorder
speecher
speech fright
speechfright
speech from the throne
speechful
speechie
speechification
speechify
speech impediment
speechless
speechlike
speechlore
speechmaker
speechmaking
speech mark
speechment
speech path
speech pathologist
speechreading
speech recognition
speech tag
speech therapist
speech therapy
speech time
speech way
speechway
speechworthy
speechwright
speechwriter
speechwriting
speechy
stump speech
symbolic speech
text-to-speech
throne speech
time-assignment speech interpolation
twin speech
uwu speech
Visible Speech
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: spraakstyl
lang: Azerbaijani
word: danışıq
lang: Finnish
word: puhe
lang: Hungarian
word: beszéd
lang: Māori
word: mita