Definition for Speech:

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

Synonyms for Speech:

• n.

  •
  • creole.
  •
  • palaver.
  •
  • harangue,
  • tirade,
  • eulogy,
  • spiel,
  • declamation,
  • rhetoric,
  • panegyric,
  • exhortation,
  • diatribe,
  • opus,
  • paper,
  • bombast,
  • valedictory,
  • appeal,
  • commentary,
  • oratory,
  • invocation,
  • disquisition,
  • stump,
  • dissertation,
  • sermon,
  • salutation.
  •
  • channel.
  •
  • jaw.
  •articulation (noun)
  • elocution.
  •communication (noun)
  • address.
  •conversation (noun)
  • questioning,
  • talkfest.
  •discourse (noun)
  • thesis.
  •formal talk to audience (noun)
  • oration,
  • pep talk,
  • recitation,
  • debate,
  • keynote,
  • pitch,
  • chalk talk,
  • parley,
  • lecture.
  •harangue (noun)
  • jeremiad.
  •language (noun)
  • brogue,
  • tongue.
  •speech (noun)
  • jabbering,
  • chattering,
  • chat,
  • talking,
  • locution,
  • babbling,
  • discussion,
  • remark,
  • oral communication,
  • speaking,
  • chitchat,
  • dialect,
  • prattle,
  • patter,
  • circumlocution,
  • dialog.
  •talk (noun)
  • articulation,
  • enunciation.
  •voice (noun)
  • intonation,
  • moan,
  • emission,
  • cry,
  • murmur,
  • whisper,
  • exclamation,
  • groan.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • screed,
  • Prelection,
  • confabulation,
  • confab,
  • homily,
  • langue,
  • word.
  •
  • dialogue,
  • verbalization,
  • colloquy,
  • apostrophe,
  • converse,
  • networking,
  • presentation.
  •
  • charge,
  • interchange,
  • expression.
  •
  • line.
  •address
  • Salutatory.
  •Other relevant words:
  • parole,
  • articulated,
  • anaphora,
  • announce,
  • aposiopesis,
  • connection,
  • household words,
  • essay,
  • bull session,
  • litotes,
  • assignment,
  • analogy,
  • gemination,
  • filibuster,
  • song and dance,
  • climax,
  • responsive,
  • Trialogue,
  • account,
  • expound,
  • oxymoron,
  • interactive,
  • tract,
  • diction,
  • communicate,
  • contact,
  • intercourse,
  • hyperbole,
  • Enunciated,
  • bringing,
  • speak,
  • gab,
  • duologue,
  • nominate,
  • study,
  • metaphor,
  • dexterity,
  • blast,
  • sounded,
  • Expressing,
  • repeat,
  • computer address,
  • establish,
  • indicate,
  • ecphonesis,
  • message,
  • legal transfer,
  • vituperation,
  • intercommunication,
  • catachresis,
  • linguistic process,
  • interpellation,
  • usage,
  • inversion,
  • proverb,
  • name and address,
  • unwritten,
  • verbiage,
  • gobbledygook,
  • gibberish,
  • lingua,
  • shibboleth,
  • script,
  • composition,
  • interrogatory,
  • prove,
  • truck,
  • periphrasis,
  • denote,
  • idiom,
  • formulate,
  • response,
  • sermonize,
  • go on about,
  • reproduce,
  • communion,
  • valediction,
  • holograph,
  • recite,
  • analysis,
  • Aporia,
  • dustup,
  • hyperbaton,
  • phrase,
  • rodomontade,
  • antiphrasis,
  • verbal,
  • typescript,
  • wrangle,
  • similitude,
  • make,
  • assign,
  • as to,
  • treatise,
  • rapping,
  • phraseology,
  • nomenclature,
  • article,
  • communicating,
  • answering,
  • Alloquy,
  • rescue,
  • dealings,
  • interrogative,
  • hold forth,
  • personification,
  • answer,
  • interplay,
  • philippic,
  • run-in,
  • destination,
  • sales talk,
  • synecdoche,
  • communicational,
  • voicing,
  • grammar,
  • try,
  • syllepsis,
  • modulation,
  • orate,
  • idiolect,
  • prepared speech,
  • sarcasm,
  • preterition,
  • wording,
  • moralize,
  • lecturing,
  • specify,
  • telepathy,
  • tone,
  • wordage,
  • burr,
  • deliver,
  • declaration,
  • conversational,
  • rehearse,
  • accentuation,
  • paregmenon,
  • public lecture,
  • metonymy,
  • manuscript,
  • vocal expression,
  • skill,
  • patois,
  • valedictory address,
  • inaugural,
  • statement,
  • voiced,
  • pronounce,
  • speech communication,
  • cant,
  • oral,
  • transmissional,
  • spoonerism,
  • row,
  • saving,
  • linguistic communication,
  • invective,
  • pidgin,
  • linguistic,
  • vocal,
  • repetition,
  • advertise,
  • telepathic,
  • terminology,
  • slang,
  • Antonomasia,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • spoken language,
  • commerce,
  • alliteration,
  • part from,
  • Voiceful,
  • assertion,
  • zeugma,
  • dispute,
  • talking to,
  • hypallage,
  • conversion,
  • accent,
  • information,
  • simile,
  • anadiplosis,
  • sales pitch,
  • pleonasm,
  • reply,
  • declaim,
  • assert,
  • correspondence,
  • regression,
  • emphasis,
  • apophasis,
  • symploce,
  • mother tongue,
  • bid farewell,
  • interaction,
  • Speeching,
  • inflection,
  • social skill,
  • lingual,
  • vocalizing,
  • irony,
  • dealing,
  • exegesis,
  • say,
  • elocutionary,
  • Vocalized,
  • squabble,
  • epilogue,
  • antithesis,
  • autograph,
  • give,
  • lyric,
  • prolepsis,
  • anastrophe,
  • lesson,
  • argot,
  • interacting,
  • said,
  • words,
  • dictate,
  • critique,
  • allusion,
  • talkathon,
  • utter,
  • Speechification,
  • make known,
  • uttered,
  • gobbledegook,
  • spoken,
  • recital,
  • petition,
  • salutatory address,
  • declare,
  • intercommunion,
  • Nuncupative,
  • vocabulary,
  • ms,
  • voice communication,
  • meiosis,
  • pronounced,
  • touch,
  • chiasmus,
  • contend,
  • style,
  • chatter,
  • traffic,
  • chinfest,
  • interactional,
  • pontificate,
  • actor's line,
  • reading,
  • instruction,
  • livery,
  • preach,
  • deliverance,
  • obstetrical delivery,
  • malapropism,
  • literal,
  • forensic,
  • dithyrambic,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • set speech,
  • quarrel,
  • congress,
  • manner of speaking,
  • anacoluthon,
  • maxim,
  • inform,
  • parenthesis,
  • designate,
  • inaugural address,
  • exchange.

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.

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.