Meaning of speech | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
   uncountable
2. The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate
3. discourse
4. The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
   uncountable
5. Medicine. an inability to speak, especially as the result of a brain lesion.
6. The act of speaking, a certain style of it
7. A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
   countable
8. Pathology. an impairment or loss of the faculty of understanding or using spoken or written language. — aphasiac, n. — aphasic, n., adj.
9. A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person
10. first-person singular present indicative of discursar
11. A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
    countable
12. loss of the power of speech; dumbness. — aphonic, — apho-nous, adj.
13. A dialect, vernacular, or a language
14. Language used orally, rather than in writing.
    uncountable
15. loss or absence of the power of speech.
16. Language used orally, rather than in writing
17. An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
    countable, uncountable
18. the ability to speak in two distinct voices. — biloquist, n.
19. Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
    uncountable
20. the condition of lacking both hearing and speech. Also called surdomutism. — deafmute, n.
21. Pathology. an inability to express ideas or reasoning in speech because of a mental disorder.
22. an impaired state of the power of speech or of the ability to comprehend language, caused by injury to the brain.
23. any neurotic disorder of speech; stammering.
24. speech problems resulting from damage to or malformation of the speech organs.

Equivalents

Examples

“He had a bad speech impediment.”

“After the accident she lost her speech.”

“All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.”

“I was at liberty to attend to Wilbert, who I could see desired speech with me. […] As far as Bobbie and I were concerned, silence reigned, this novel twist in the scenario having wiped speech from our lips, as the expression is, but Phyllis continued vocal. […] For perhaps a quarter of a minute after he had passed from the scene the aged relative stood struggling for utterance. At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!””

“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.”

“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.”

“He's going to present the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. We've been caught short as usual, and somebody has got to make a speech on ideals and the great world outside to those blasted boys, so he fits in nicely. I believe he's a very fine speaker. His only trouble is that he's stymied unless he has his speech with him and can read it. Calls it referring to his notes. […] “So that's why he's been going about looking like a dead fish. I suppose Roberta broke the engagement?” “In a speech lasting five minutes without a pause for breath.””

“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.”

“This word is mostly used in speech.”

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

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