Synonyms for speech
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Language — A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language
language, tongue, lingo informal, dialect, locution, vernacular, idiom, theed rare, atheed rare
2. Oration — A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person
oration, address, monologue, monolog US, discourse, soliloquy, sermon, harangue, allocution
3. Talk
Definitions
- n. 1
A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.
- n. 2
A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
- n. 3
The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
He had a bad speech impediment.
Forms
- Plural
- speeches → languages, tongues, lingos, dialects…
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Speech involves always the power of articulate utterance; we can speak of the language of animals, but not of their speech. A tongue is the speech or language of some one people, country, or race.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- language Few people can speak a foreign language perfectly.
- dialect He always makes fun of her because of her dialect.
- locution A utters locution B, meaning illocution C, and resulting in perlocution D.
- monologue Donald needs to get ready for his monologue.
- oration His great oration was like pearls before swine.
- words What he meant by those words finally dawned on me.
By length
- 4 letters
- talk1
- 5 letters
- words1, voice1, lingo2, idiom3, theed
- 6 letters
- tongue1, sermon2, tirade2, atheed
- 7 letters
- address2, lecture2, dialect3, oration3, monolog
- 8 letters
- language2, delivery4, parlance2, harangue2, locution
- 9 letters
- discourse2, monologue3, utterance3, soliloquy4, elocution4
- 10 letters
- vernacular4, allocution, peroration
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lingo2 = 2 syllables).