speech - Meaning in Konkani

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speech - Meaning in Konkani

speech Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of speech in English

speech noun

1. the mental faculty or power of vocal communication

   Synonyms

   language

   Example

   • "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
2. a lengthy rebuke

   Synonyms

   lecture, talking to

   Examples

   • "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
   • "the teacher gave him a talking to"
3. words making up the dialogue of a play

   Synonyms

   actor's line, words, words

   Example

   • "the actor forgot his speech"
4. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

   Synonyms

   delivery, manner of speaking

   Examples

   • "her speech was barren of southernisms"
   • "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"
   • "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
5. (language) communication by word of mouth

   Synonyms

   language, oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication

   Examples

   • "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
   • "he uttered harsh language"
   • "his speech was garbled"
6. the exchange of spoken words

   Example

   • "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
7. something spoken

   Example

   • "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"
8. the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience

   Synonyms

   address

   Example

   • "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"

Synonyms of speech

• language
• lecture, talking to
• actor's line, words
• delivery, manner of speaking
• language, oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
• address

Description

Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words, and using those words in their semantic character as words in the lexicon of a language according to the syntactic constraints that govern lexical words' function in a sentence. In speaking, speakers perform many different intentional speech acts, e.g., informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing, and can use enunciation, intonation, degrees of loudness, tempo, and other non-representational or paralinguistic aspects of vocalization to convey meaning. In their speech, speakers also unintentionally communicate many aspects of their social position such as sex, age, place of origin, physical states, psychological states, physico-psychological states, education or experience, and the like.

Also see "Speech" on Wikipedia

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