Word Meanings - SPEECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the

Additional info about word: SPEECH

speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. Holder. 2. he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation. Note: Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips, etc., the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which move their walls. O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage. Chaucer. The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told. Milton. 3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. People of a strange speech and of an hard language. Ezek. iii. 6. 4. Talk; mention; common saying. The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey. Shak. 5. formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. Swift. 6. ny declaration of thoughts. I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied. Milton. Syn. Harangue; language; address; oration. See Harangue, and Language.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPEECH)

• Dialect
• Provincialism
• accent
• idiom
• tongue
• language
• speech
• phraseology
• Effusion
• Pouring
• discharge
• emission
• effluence
• oration
• address
• Harangue
• Speech
• declamation
• effusion
• rant
• Language
• talk
• conversation
• dialect
• discourse
• diction
• articulation
• accents
• vernacular
• expression
• Saying
• Assertion
• maxim
• saw
• dictum
• declaration
• byword
• proverb
• aphorism
• apothegm

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPEECH)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass

Related words: (words related to SPEECH)

• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• SAYING
  That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
• POURSUIVANT
  See PURSUIVANT
• SAYMAN
  One who assays.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• POURPARLER
  A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• VERNACULAR
  Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the
• ACCENTUALITY
  The quality of being accentual.
• HARANGUE
  A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• DICTION
  Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• VISAYAN
  A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• ABARTICULATION
  Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM