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Meaning of speech

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  speech
      n 1: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an
           audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
           [syn: {address}, {speech}]
      2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was
         garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the
         spoken language of the streets" [syn: {speech}, {speech
         communication}, {spoken communication}, {spoken language},
         {language}, {voice communication}, {oral communication}]
      3: something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry
         speeches"
      4: the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly
         comfortable together without speech"
      5: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself
         orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her
         speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight
         accent in his speech" [syn: {manner of speaking}, {speech},
         {delivery}]
      6: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of
         discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn:
         {lecture}, {speech}, {talking to}]
      7: words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his
         speech" [syn: {actor's line}, {speech}, {words}]
      8: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language
         sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" [syn:
         {language}, {speech}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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