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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Speech \Speech\, v. i. & t.
     To make a speech; to harangue. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Speech \Speech\, n. [OE. speche, AS. sp?c, spr?, fr. specan,
     sprecan, to speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. spr[=a]hha,
     G. sprache, Sw. spr?k, Dan. sprog. See Speak.]
     1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the
        faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate
        sounds; the power of speaking.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              There is none comparable to the variety of
              instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man
              alone is endowed for the communication of his
              thoughts.                             --Holder.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as
        expressing ideas; language; conversation.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips,
           etc., the modulation being accomplished by changing the
           form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the
           action of muscles which move their walls.
           [1913 Webster]
  
                 O goode God! how gentle and how kind
                 Ye seemed by your speech and your visage
                 The day that maked was our marriage. --Chaucer.
           [1913 Webster]
  
                 The acts of God . . . to human ears
                 Can nort without process of speech be told.
                                                    --Milton.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue;
        a dialect.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              People of a strange speech and of an hard language.
                                                    --Ezek. iii.
                                                    6.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Talk; mention; common saying.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The duke . . . did of me demand
              What was the speech among the Londoners
              Concerning the French journey.        --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The constant design of these orators, in all their
              speeches, was to drive some one particular point.
                                                    --Swift.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. ny declaration of thoughts.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied.
                                                    --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Syn. Harangue; language; address; oration. See
          Harangue, and Language.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Speech \Speech\, n. [OE. speche, AS. sp?c, spr?, fr. specan,
     sprecan, to speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. spr[=a]hha,
     G. sprache, Sw. spr?k, Dan. sprog. See Speak.]
     1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the
        faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate
        sounds; the power of speaking.
  
              There is none comparable to the variety of
              instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man
              alone is endowed for the communication of his
              thoughts.                             --Holder.
  
     2. he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as
        expressing ideas; language; conversation.
  
     Note: Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips,
           etc., the modulation being accomplished by changing the
           form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the
           action of muscles which move their walls.
  
                 O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by
                 your speech and your visage The day that maked
                 was our marriage.                  --Chaucer.
  
                 The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort
                 without process of speech be told. --Milton.
  
     3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue;
        a dialect.
  
              People of a strange speech and of an hard language.
                                                    --Ezek. iii.
                                                    6.
  
     4. Talk; mention; common saying.
  
              The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech
              among the Londoners Concerning the French journey.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     5. formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
  
              The constant design of these orators, in all their
              speeches, was to drive some one particular point.
                                                    --Swift.
  
     6. ny declaration of thoughts.
  
              I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     Syn: Syn. Harangue; language; address; oration. See
          Harangue, and Language.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Speech \Speech\, v. i. & t.
     To make a speech; to harangue. [R.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ 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]
       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
          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, delivery]
       6: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of
          discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn: lecture,
           talking to]
       7: words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot
          his speech" [syn: actor's line, words]
       8: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;
          "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
          [syn: language]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 λόγος
     2 (ετ ιδιωματισμός en) η βωμολοχία, υβριστικός λόγος, λόγος με
  βρισιές, η βρισιά

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     French n.
     an informal speech
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering
  words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Speech
     Luxembourgish n.
     spoke (part of a wheel)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering
  words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     French n.
     an informal speech
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering
  words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Speech
     Luxembourgish n.
     spoke (part of a wheel)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     French n.
     an informal speech
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering
  words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Speech
     Luxembourgish n.
     spoke (part of a wheel)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     Englanti n.
     1 puhe, puhua
     2 puhe (''yhden henkilön pitämä suullinen esitys'')
     3 (yhteys teatteri k=en) repliikki; vuorosanat

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  speech
     Engelska n.
     1 talförmåga
     2 tal, yttrande
     3 replik

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  الخطاب

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  speech //ˈspiːt͡ʃ// 
  1. го́вор, спийч
  an oration, session of speaking
  2. непря́ка реч
  reported speech
  3. реч, го́вор
  vocal communication

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  řeč

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/ 
  proslov

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  projev

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  mluvení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/ 
  mluvení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  mluva

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/ 
  araith 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  Rede , Ansprache 
        "the President's speech"  - die Rede des Präsidenten
        "the speech given by the President"  - die Rede des Präsidenten
        "speech of welcome"  - Begrüßungsrede, Begrüßungsansprache
        "after-dinner speech"  - Tischrede
        "give a speech"  - eine Rede halten, eine Ansprache halten (über/zu etw.)
        "make a speech"  - eine Rede halten, eine Ansprache halten (über/zu etw.)
        "deliver a speech"  - eine Rede halten, eine Ansprache halten (über/zu etw.)
     Synonym: address
  
   see: television address, welcoming speech, welcoming address, acceptance speech, nominating speech, campaign speech, stump speech
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  Sprechfähigkeit , verbale Ausdrucksfähigkeit , Sprache  [med.]
        "a loss of speech"  - ein Verlust der Sprechfähigkeit
        "have a mild speech impediment"  - eine leichte Sprachbeeinträchtigung / Sprechbeeinträchtigung haben
        "the way the brain processes sound and speech"  - die Art, wie das Gehirn Ton und Sprache verarbeitet
        "Her speech was bad, and she couldn't walk."  - Sie konnte kaum sprechen und sie konnte nicht gehen.
     Synonyms: power of speech, verbal expression
  
   see: human speech
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  gesprochene Sprache  [ling.]
        "the use of a language in speech and writing"  - der Gebrauch einer Sprache in Wort und Schrift
        "These expressions are more common in speech than in writing."  - Diese Ausdrücke sind in der gesprochenen Sprache häufiger als in der geschriebenen.
     Synonym: spoken language
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  speech //ˈspiːt͡ʃ// 
  1. puhe 2.
  an oration, session of speaking
   3.
  vocal communication
   4.
  style of speaking
  2. lainaus
  reported speech

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  speech /spiːtʃ/
  1. discours
  2. langage
  3. parole

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/ 
  1. कथन
        "We express our thoughts through speech."
  2. भाषा
        "He always speaks in good speech."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  besjeda, dijalekt, govor, govora, govorenje, jezik, narječje, prepoznavanje govora, propovijed, riječi

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  1. hang
  2. felszólalás
  3. beszéd
  4. nyelvjárás
  5. beszélô képesség
  6. nyelv
  7. szónoklat
  8. beszédmód
  9. beszédmodor

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  speech //ˈspiːt͡ʃ// 
  pidato
  an oration, session of speaking

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  speech //ˈspiːt͡ʃ// 
  1. 演説
  an oration, session of speaking
  2. 演説, スピーチ, 話
  vocal communication

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  speech /spiːtʃ/
  kalba, kalbėjimas, pranešimas

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  speech /spiːtʃ/
  1. oratie, rede, redevoering, speech
  2. spraak, spraakvermogen
  3. spreektrant
  4. spreken

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  speech /spi:ʧ/
  I.   1.  mowa
   2.  przemówienie
   3.  język, dialekt
  II.  speech sound /spˈiːtʃ sˈaʊnd/   głoska

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  speech /spiːtʃ/
  conferência, discurso, fala

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  speech //ˈspiːt͡ʃ// 
  tal 2.
  an oration, session of speaking
   3.
  vocal communication

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  speech /spˈiːtʃ/
  1. konuşma yeteneği, söyleme yetisi, natıka
  2. konuşma, söz söyleme, tekellüm
  3. söz
  4. dil, lisan
  5. hitabe, söylev, nutuk. speech clinic konuşma bozukluklarının düzeltildiği klinik. speech disorder konuşma bozukluğu .speech organ konuşma organı speech pattern konuşma düzeni
  6. konuşma şekli, ifade tarzı. figure of speech mecaz. free speech konuşma özgürlüğü. parts of speech (gram.) söz bölükleri.

From Dutch-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:nld-deu ]

  speech /spitʃ/
  Rede , Vortrag 

From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:nld-eng ]

  speech /spitʃ/
  speech

From Nederlands-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:nld-fra ]

  speech /spitʃ/
  discours

From Nederlands-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2022.04.06 :   [ freedict:nld-ind ]

  speech /spˈeːx/ 
  pidato

From Nederlands-latine FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-lat ]

  speech /spˈeːx/ 
  eloquium

From Nederlands-lietuvių kalba FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2020.10.04 :   [ freedict:nld-lit ]

  speech /spˈeːx/ 
  kalba

From Nederlands-español FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-spa ]

  speech /spˈeːx/ 
  discurso, oración

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈspitʃ/

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :   [ bouvier ]

  SPEECH. A formal discourse in public. 
       2. The liberty of speech is guaranteed to members of the legislature, 
  to counsel in court in debate. 
       3. The reduction of a speech to writing and its publication is a libel, 
  if the matter contained in it is libelous; and the repetition of it upon 
  occasions not warranted by law, when the matter is slanderous, will be 
  slander and. tho character of the speaker will be no protection to him from 
  an action. 1 M. & S. 273; 1 Esp. C. 226 Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. See Debate; 
  Liberty of speech. 
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  229 Moby Thesaurus words for "speech":
     ESP, address, after-dinner speech, alliteration, allocution,
     allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe,
     answer, answering, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis,
     aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, articulated, articulation, blast,
     bull session, catachresis, chalk talk, chiasmus, chinfest,
     choice of words, circumlocution, climax, commerce, communicating,
     communication, communicational, communion, communional,
     composition, confab, confabulation, congress, connection, contact,
     conversation, conversational, converse, conversion, correspondence,
     dealing, dealings, debate, declamation, dialect, dialogue,
     diatribe, diction, discourse, disquisition, duologue, ecphonesis,
     elocution, emphasis, enunciated, enunciation, eulogy, exchange,
     exclamation, exhortation, expression, filibuster, forensic,
     forensic address, formal speech, formulation, funeral oration,
     gemination, grammar, harangue, homily, hortatory address,
     hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, idiom, inaugural,
     inaugural address, information, interacting, interaction,
     interactional, interactive, interchange, intercommunication,
     intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunion,
     intercommunional, intercourse, interplay, interresponsive,
     interrogative, interrogatory, invective, inversion, irony, jargon,
     jeremiad, language, langue, lecture, line, lingo, lingua, lingual,
     linguistic, linguistic intercourse, litotes, locution, malapropism,
     meiosis, message, metaphor, metonymy, nuncupative, onomatopoeia,
     oral, oral communication, oration, oxymoron, palaver, paregmenon,
     parenthesis, parlance, parley, parol, parole, pep talk,
     periphrasis, peroration, personal usage, personification,
     philippic, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pitch, pleonasm,
     prepared speech, prepared text, preterition, prolepsis, pronounced,
     public speech, question-and-answer session, questioning, reading,
     recital, recitation, regression, repetition, reply, response,
     responsive, rhetoric, said, sales pitch, sales talk, salutatory,
     salutatory address, sarcasm, say, screed, sermon, set speech,
     simile, similitude, social intercourse, song and dance, sounded,
     speaking, speech circuit, speech situation, speechification,
     speeching, spiel, spoken, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce,
     synecdoche, talk, talkathon, talkfest, talking, telepathic,
     telepathy, tirade, tongue, touch, traffic, transmissional,
     trialogue, truck, two-way communication, unwritten, usage,
     use of words, usus loquendi, utterance, uttered, valediction,
     valedictory, valedictory address, verbal, verbalization, verbiage,
     vernacular, viva voce, vocal, vocalization, vocalized, voice,
     voiced, voiceful, voicing, wordage, wording, words, zeugma
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 演讲,说话,发表;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. U言语,说话,说话方式;C演说,讲话

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