speech

CEFRB1

/spiːt͡ʃ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The ability or act of expressing thoughts with spoken words.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.

Examples

  • Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

  • This is only the first draft of my speech.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /spɛːt͡ʃ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The act of speaking, a certain style of it.

  2. The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.

  3. A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.

More examples

In context

  • What if you gave a speech and nobody came?

  • After the accident she lost her speech.

  • It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.