speech
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
speech/spiːtʃ/
▶noun
- 1 the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.
- 2 a formal address delivered to an audience.
■ a sequence of lines written for one character in a play.
– origin OE sprǣc, sprēc, later spēc, of W. Gmc origin.
'speech' also found in these Oxford entries:
accent
- acidic
- address
- ad-lib
- affectation
- agma
- ain't
- alexia
- allocution
- alphabet
- and
- aphasia
- apology
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- articulate
- articulation
- as
- Asperger's syndrome
- audio-visual
- babble
- babe
- baby
- backshift
- bawdry
- bequest
- bilabial
- blackmail
- blarney
- Broca's area
- bunkum
- burble
- burden
- cant
- Ciceronian
- civil liberty
- click
- clipped
- competence
- computational linguistics
- condense
- confessional
- consonant
- constative
- content
- coprolalia
- counter
- courtesy
- crank
- cue
