speech
Pronunciation: /spiːt͡ʃ/
The English word “speech” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
- Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
verb
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.
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