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speech

noun
  1. The faculty, act, or product of speaking: discourse, talk, utterance, verbalization, vocalization. See words
  2. Spoken exchange: chat, colloquy, confabulation, conversation, converse 1, dialogue, discourse, talk. Informal: confab. Slang: jaw. See words
  3. A usually formal oral communication to an audience: address, allocution, declamation, lecture, oration, prelection, talk. See words
  4. A system of terms used by a people sharing a history and culture: dialect, language, tongue, vernacular. Linguistics: langue. See words

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