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speech

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of speech

1 a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience

The guest of honor gave a short speech in appreciation of the award.

Synonyms of speech

address, declamation, harangue, oration, talk

Words Related to speech

diatribe, rant, tirade

eulogy, panegyric, tribute

keynote address (or keynote speech), lecture, salutatory

monologue (also monolog), soliloquy

pitch, presentation, spiel

2 the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication

Wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech.

Synonyms of speech

language, lingo, mother tongue, tongue, vocabulary

Words Related to speech

argot, cant, colloquial, dialect, idiolect, idiom, jargon, parlance, patois, patter, pidgin, slang, slanguage, vernacular

colloquialism, localism, provincialism, regionalism, shibboleth, vernacularism

coinage, modernism, neologism

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