speech
Roget-categorie 582
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means
#582.
Speech
zelfstandig naamwoord
speech,
faculty of speech —
locution,
talk,
parlance,
verbal intercourse,
prolation†,
oral communication,
word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle —
effusion.
oration,
recitation,
delivery,
say,
speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade,
formal speech,
peroration —
speechifying —
soliloquy
etc.
589 —
allocution
etc.
586 —
conversation
etc.
588 —
salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory —
elocution,
eloquence —
rhetoric,
declamation —
grandiloquence,
multiloquence† —
burst of eloquence —
facundity† —
flow of words,
command of words,
command of language —
copia verborum [Lat.] —
power of speech,
gift of the gab —
usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker
etc.
v. —
spokesman —
prolocutor,
interlocutor —
mouthpiece,
Hermes —
orator,
oratrix†,
oratress† —
Demosthenes,
Cicero —
rhetorician —
stump orator,
platform orator —
speechmaker,
patterer†,
improvisatore†.
werkwoord
speak of —
say,
utter,
pronounce,
deliver,
give utterance to —
utter forth,
pour forth —
breathe,
let fall,
come out with —
rap out,
blurt out have on one's lips —
have at the end of one's tongue,
have at the tip of one's tongue.
break silence —
open one's lips,
open one's mouth —
lift one's voice,
raise one's voice —
give the tongue,
wag the tongue —
talk,
outspeak† —
put in a word or two,
hold forth —
make a speech,
deliver a speech
etc.
n. —
speechify,
harangue,
declaim,
stump,
flourish,
recite,
lecture,
sermonize,
discourse,
be on one's legs —
have one's say,
say one's say —
spout,
rant,
rave,
vent one's fury,
vent one's rage —
expatiate
etc.
(speak at length)
573 —
speak one's mind,
go on the stump,
take the stump [U.S.].
soliloquize
etc.
589 —
tell
etc.
(inform)
527 —
speak to
etc.
586 —
talk together
etc.
588.
be eloquent
etc.
adj. —
have a tongue in one's head,
have the gift of the gab
etc.
n..
pass one's lips,
escape one's lips —
fall from the lips,
fall from the mouth.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
speaking
&c. —
spoken
etc.
v. —
oral,
lingual,
phonetic,
not written,
unwritten,
outspoken —
eloquent,
elocutionary —
oratorical,
rhetorical —
declamatory —
grandiloquent
etc.
577 —
talkative
etc.
584 —
Ciceronian,
nuncupative,
Tullian.
bijwoord
orally
etc.
adj. —
by word of mouth,
viva voce,
from the lips of.
uitdrukking
quoth he,
said he
&c. —
action is eloquence"
[Coriolanus];
pour the full tide of eloquence along"
[Pope];
she speaks poignards and every word stabs"
[Much Ado About Nothing];
speech is but broken light upon the depth of the speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken"
[G. Eliot];
to try thy eloquence now 'tis time"
[Antony and Cleopatra].
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