Definition for Speech:

• the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; " language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"

Synonyms for Speech:

• n.

  •
  • basilect,
  • heritage language,
  • interlingual,
  • first language,
  • interlanguage,
  • home language,
  • creole,
  • diglossia,
  • acrolect.
  •
  • denouement,
  • backstory,
  • ad lib,
  • palaver,
  • aside,
  • comic relief,
  • act,
  • action,
  • the credits,
  • contrivance,
  • content.
  •
  • exhortation,
  • tirade,
  • dissertation,
  • spiel,
  • commentary,
  • rhetoric,
  • panegyric,
  • eulogy,
  • declamation,
  • opus,
  • paper,
  • appeal,
  • valedictory,
  • allocation,
  • bombast,
  • oratory,
  • invocation,
  • diatribe,
  • stump,
  • disquisition,
  • sermon,
  • salutation.
  •
  • channel,
  • communications.
  •
  • jaw.
  •actor's line (noun)
  • actor's line.
  •allocution (noun)
  • pre lections,
  • pre-lection,
  • pre lection,
  • pre-lections.
  •articulation (noun)
  • elocution.
  •behavior (noun)
  • tenue,
  • etiquette,
  • Tenues,
  • way of life,
  • what's done,
  • Habits.
  •communication (noun)
  • address,
  • speech.
  •conversation (noun)
  • repartee,
  • talkfest,
  • pillow talk,
  • jive,
  • questioning,
  • jives,
  • Re-mark.
  •delivery (noun)
  • in flection,
  • in flections,
  • de livery,
  • de liveries,
  • in-flection,
  • in-flections,
  • de-liveries,
  • de-livery.
  •discourse (noun)
  • Tractate,
  • gabfests,
  • memoir,
  • gabfest,
  • thesis,
  • speakings,
  • Sermons.
  •elocution (noun)
  • voice cultures,
  • voice productions,
  • speechcrafts,
  • speechmakings.
  •expression (noun)
  • ex-planations,
  • ex-positions,
  • turn phrase,
  • choice words,
  • ex planation,
  • set phrases,
  • choice of word,
  • ex-position,
  • ex planations.
  •formal talk to audience (noun)
  • parley,
  • pep talk,
  • debate,
  • chalk talk,
  • pitch,
  • recitation,
  • keynote,
  • lecture.
  •harangue (noun)
  • jeremiad,
  • reading out,
  • screeds.
  •parlance (noun)
  • localisms,
  • provincialisms.
  •pronunciation (noun)
  • phonologies,
  • syllabifications,
  • orthoepies,
  • phonemicses.
  •prose (noun)
  • nonfiction,
  • non-fiction.
  •report (noun)
  • earful,
  • blow by blow,
  • the latest.
  •soliloquy (noun)
  • monologies.
  •speech (noun)
  • locution,
  • voice communication,
  • discussion,
  • talking,
  • chitchat,
  • speaking,
  • prattle,
  • jabbering,
  • circumlocution,
  • oral communication,
  • remark,
  • chat,
  • words,
  • babbling,
  • chattering,
  • patter,
  • manner of speaking,
  • dialect,
  • talking to,
  • dialog,
  • spoken language,
  • speech communication.
  •style (noun)
  • diction.
  •talk (noun)
  • vocalizing,
  • mother tongue,
  • intercourse,
  • tongue,
  • vocal expression,
  • idiom,
  • double talk,
  • Expressing,
  • accent,
  • articulation,
  • voicing,
  • tone.
  •utterance (noun)
  • re-citation,
  • re-citations,
  • re citation,
  • re citations.
  •vernacular (noun)
  • jive talks,
  • native tongues.
  •voice (noun)
  • intonation,
  • murmur,
  • exclamation,
  • emission,
  • groan,
  • whisper,
  • moan.
  •word (noun)
  • by-word,
  • by-words.
  •word of mouth (noun)
  • personal accounts,
  • verbal evidences,
  • word-mouth,
  • oral messages,
  • orallies,
  • viva voces,
  • word mouth,
  • spoken communications,
  • parols.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Prelection,
  • screed,
  • maiden speech,
  • meditation,
  • langue,
  • homily,
  • therapy,
  • confabulation,
  • confab,
  • word,
  • the Pledge of Allegiance,
  • vote of thanks,
  • face time.
  •
  • homage,
  • presentation,
  • colloquy,
  • apostrophe,
  • verbalization,
  • networking,
  • converse,
  • dialogue.
  •
  • expression,
  • interchange.
  •
  • line,
  • show.
  •address
  • Salutatory.
  •pomposity
  • magniloquence.
  •tirade
  • philippic.
  •ventriloquy
  • ventriloquism.

Paraphrases for Speech:

• Equivalence

  • Adverb
    speeches.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    speeches.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    utterances.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    argument.

• Independent

  • Coordinating conjunction
    address.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    address.
  • Adjective
    address, voice.
  • Proper noun, plural
    remarks.
  • Proper noun, singular
    remarks, documents, stakeholders, expression, expressions, points, Addresses, address, voice, Voices, statements, intervention, interventions.
  • Noun, plural
    pronouncements, Characters, remarks, Addresses, statements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    discuss, expression, floor, manifestation, remark, address, pitch, voice, toast, utterance, network, comment, intervention, interventions, opinion.
  • Adverb
    address.
  • Interjection
    address.
  • Verb, past tense
    reported, Delivered, heard, said, included.
  • Verb, past participle
    Discussed, Delivered, Intervened, mobilised, Deployed, heard, engaged, said, identified, involved, Consulted, covered, Carried, Allowed, made, address, intervention.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    address.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Addresses.
  • Verb, base form
    address, voice.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, plural
    discourses.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Prayers, discourse, discourses.
  • Noun, plural
    discourses.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    rhetoric, discourse.

Antonyms for Speech:

• n.

  • talk
    silence, standard, listening, quiet.
  • Other antonyms:
    stillness, taciturnity, hush, speechlessness.

Speech Sentence Examples:

• But yo' must each give us yo'r word not to name what has passed here to any one till further speech on the subject has passed between us.

• " Mbopo help," was his only speech.

Homophones for Speech:

• spec, show biz, suspicious, subfusc, spik, spooky, soapbox, sawfish, spacy, sebaceous, sphecius, skivvies, sheepish, speke, succubus, sheep fescue, savage, scapose, sea-puss, sepsis, skopje, sixpack, safe sex, sfax, sickbag, spock, scabies, sick bag, sisyphus, spacious, scyphus, spice, spiky, squaw-bush, spica, squeeze box, spoke, specie, speakeasy, sebs, space, sapsago, scabious, spassky, sabicu, scopes, skybox, suppose, spice cake, suffix, showpiece, specs, swayback, safe house, schizophyceae, skipjack, spicy, space age, suffuse, sea-poose, seabag, six pack, speck, soubise, spike, seepage, scaphiopus, scyphozoa, sapphic, spice cookie, safaqis, subbase, spook, sow bug, species, squash bug, shoebox, speak, sea puss, subaqueous, sawbuck, specious, squawk box, spic, soapfish, spouse, six-pack, sea bass, swbs, spacey, suffice, shavous, scabiosa, sops, squawbush, spick, suppuku, sausage pizza.

Hypernym for Speech:

• n.

  • communication
    oral presentation, preaching, litany, public lecture, public speaking, oratory, speaking, allocution, impromptu, discourse, speechmaking, inaugural, dithyramb, talk, sermon, colloquium, inaugural address, lecture.

Hyponym for Speech:

• n.

  • communication
    speech production, speaking, utterance, speech act, vocalization.

Meronym for Speech:

• n.

  • communication
    conclusion, ending, close, body, closing, introduction, end.