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speech
English
Alternative forms
- speach (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English speche, from Old English sp??, spr?? (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-Germanic *spr?kij?, *spr?k? (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spi?t?/
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Noun
speech (countable and uncountable, plural speeches)
- (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
- (countable) A session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- Synonyms: monologue, oration, soliloquy
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
- The constant design of both these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point.
- A style of speaking.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:speech
- (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech
- A dialect or language.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:language
- Talk; mention; rumour.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- speak
Translations
Verb
speech (third-person singular simple present speeches, present participle speeching, simple past and past participle speeched)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
Derived terms
- bespeech
Anagrams
- cheeps
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English speech.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spit?/
Noun
speech m (plural speechen or speeches, diminutive speechje n)
- speech, oration (oral monologic address of some length)
- redevoering (“toespraak”)
Derived terms
- speechen
Anagrams
- scheep
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spit?/
Noun
speech m (plural speechs)
- An informal speech
Synonyms
- allocution
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speechlore
English
Etymology
From speech +? lore.
Noun
speechlore (uncountable)
- The science, study, or knowledge of language or speech; linguistics.
- 1865, British Archaeological Association, The archaeological journal: Volume 22:
- I know it may be said that place names are very unsafe ground, as they are mostly taken by wild casts of thought ; but the truth is that they are more or less trustworthy, as they are taken upon wider or narrower grounds of speechlore.
- 1877, David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Macmillan's magazine: Volume 35:
- It says they were driven forth by another race; and it is markworthy that it makes the Magyares, or Hungarians as we call them, to be what speechlore has now found them to be, Finns, or of the Finnish race, [...]
- 1910, Benito Pérez Galdós, The grandfather:
- Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language (speechlore) naturally enabled him to do.
- 1984, James W. Parins, William Barnes:
- [...] in Athenaeum called him "an enthusiast," which almost goes without saying, but went on to say that his book is valuable inasmuch as it does "do good, as it teaches many overlooked (I [Barnes] say little known) points of speechlore.
- 1865, British Archaeological Association, The archaeological journal: Volume 22:
- (nonce word) Philology; grammar.
- 1887, Leader Scott, The life of William Barnes:
- After the publication of Redecraft, nearly all William Barnes's literary energies were given to "Speechlore," as he called Philology.
- 1887, Leader Scott, The life of William Barnes:
Anagrams
- creepholes
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