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FromMiddle Englishspeche, fromOld Englishspǣċ,sprǣċ(“speech, discourse, language”), fromProto-West Germanic*sprāku(“speech, language”), fromProto-Indo-European*spereg-,*spreg-(“to make a sound”). Cognate withDutchspraak(“speech”),GermanSprache(“language, speech”). More atspeak.

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speech (countable anduncountable,pluralspeeches)

  1. (uncountable) The ability tospeak; the faculty of utteringwords or articulatesounds andvocalizations tocommunicate.
    He had a badspeech impediment.
    After the accident she lost herspeech.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 ofspeech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
    • 1960,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XV AND XVIII”, inJeeves in the Offing, London:Herbert Jenkins,→OCLC:
      I was at liberty to attend to Wilbert, who I could see desiredspeech with me.[…] As far as Bobbie and I were concerned, silence reigned, this novel twist in the scenario having wipedspeech 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 foundspeech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!”
  2. (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:speech
    It was hard to hear hisspeech over the noise.
    Herspeech was soft and lilting.
    • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, inThe Economist, volume411, number8884:
      Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur theirspeech and behave like someone inebriated.
  4. (countable) A formal session ofspeaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
    Synonyms:address,allocution,monologue,oration,soliloquy
    The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaignspeech.
    • 1720,Jonathan Swift,A Letter to a Young Clergyman:
      The constant design of both these orators, in all theirspeeches, was to drive some one particular point.
    • 1960,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “I AND XII”, inJeeves in the Offing, London:Herbert Jenkins,→OCLC:
      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 aspeech 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 hisspeech 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 aspeech lasting five minutes without a pause for breath.”
  5. (countable) Adialect,vernacular, or(dated) alanguage.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:language
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Ezekiel3:6:
      For thou art not sent to a people of a strangespeech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.
    • 1542,Andrew Boorde,The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge:
      Thespeche of Englande is a basespeche to other noblespeches, as Italion, Castylion, and Frenche; howbeit thespeche of Englande of late dayes is amended.
  6. (uncountable) Language usedorally, rather than in writing.
    This word is mostly used inspeech.
  7. (grammar) An utterance that isquoted;seedirect speech,reported speech
  8. (uncountable) Publictalk,news,gossip,rumour.

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Translations

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vocal communication
an oration, session of speaking
dialect or language—seedialect,‎language
style of speaking
reported speech
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Verb

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speech (third-person singular simple presentspeeches,present participlespeeching,simple past and past participlespeeched)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) Tomake a speech; toharangue.
    • 1711[December?] (date written),Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace[i.e.,Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, inThomas Sheridan,John Nichols, editors,The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published1801,→OCLC,page73:
      I'llspeech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.
    • 1731,The Statesman: A New Court Ballad,page 7:
      So toSpeeching he did go, / And like a Man of Senſe, / He certainly ſaid Ay or No,
    • 1965 June, “Wales, Land of Bards”, inNational Geographic, volume127, number 6:
      "He wasn't one to make himself big," said Mr. Jones. "But he had something that drew the people when he wasspeeching... When he came down we all used to shout 'Lloyd George am byth!' You know, 'Lloyd George forever!' That was just how we felt."

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Borrowed fromEnglishspeech.

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speech m (pluralspeechenorspeeches,diminutivespeechje n)

  1. speech,oration(oral monologic address of some length)
    redevoering(“toespraak”)

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speech m (pluralspeechs)

  1. aninformal speech
    Synonym:allocution

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishspeech.

Noun

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speech n (pluralspeech-uri)

  1. speech

Declension

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Declension ofspeech
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativespeechspeechulspeech-urispeech-urile
genitive-dativespeechspeechuluispeech-urispeech-urilor
vocativespeechulespeech-urilor
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