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speech

noun
/spiːt͡ʃ/

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.

  1. derived from *spereg-✻
  2. inherited from *sprāku✻
  3. inherited from spǣċ
  4. inherited from speche

Definitions

  1. The ability to speak

    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.

  2. 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.
    • 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.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. Language used orally, rather than in writing.

      • This word is mostly used in speech.

    3. An utterance that is quoted

      An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech

    4. Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.

      • The duke[…]did of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.

    5. To make (a speech)

      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,

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Derived

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 · +51 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at speech. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at speech. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at speech

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA