speech
42
3.9
- noun
- /spiːtʃ/
- Literature
:
parlamento
- In the play, the character's speech revealed his inner conflict and motivations.
- a character's speech
- speech in the scene
I love reading that speech more than I love watching people perform it.
- I love reading that speech more than I love watching people perform it.
- The simplest is are your dialogue speeches too long?
- And they'd sent me the script and I'd learned a big speech for the first day.
- When Antisthenes finishes his speech, then Callias says, I envy your your wealth.
- I just remembered very distinctly the the speech ending with and so do.
- He just sort of scribbled that speech down about making cups of tea.
Examples
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I love reading that speech more than I love watching people perform it.
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"We all recognized the speech immediately, the tavern scene from Act II."
Fiction book (1990) -
But guys, the best man speech, It's very fun.
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A lot of people forget that part of the speech now.
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And I'm going to watch your speech and see what you do.
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Anyway, uh, this is a speech from Hamlet.
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There's a speech I remember being made to learn by heart at school.
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"I appreciate your interest in my origins," I said, launching into the speech of introduction that I had carefully prepared.
Fiction book (2002) -
And she'd been practising this speech for days and weeks on end.
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The winner of the fight ends his victory speech with the Gospel hymn.
Synonyms
124
4.8
A long speech by one person often in a play or film
8
8.9
A speech in a play where a character speaks thoughts aloud when alone
4
3.4
A conversation between more than one person, often shown in books or plays
1
9.9
A short speech at the start of a Spanish play that praises someone
1
3.5
Words a person says in a play or performance
1
8.9
A conversation between two people, often in a play
A short acted scene that appears between the acts of a play
Idioms
- Informal
Not speaking is often better than saying things you do not need to say
Compounds
- Formal
178
3.2
The right to say what you think in public without the government stopping you
- Formal
89
2.7
The right to say what you think without fear of government punishment
- Offensive
41
5.1
Speech that attacks a group and encourages others to harm or treat them unfairly, like race, religion, gender
- Literature
14
6.5
A talk a politician gives many times during a campaign about their main plans
- Formal
1
6.9
A speech at a political meeting that officially proposes someone as a candidate
- Specialized
1
4.3
A condition that makes it hard to say sounds correctly or use the voice well
- Specialized
1
5.5
People who use the same language or dialect and follow the same rules for talking
- Specialized
A problem that makes someone speak unclearly or have trouble saying words
- Specialized
A part of how we speak that helps show the difference between words or sounds
- Specialized
A way of speaking that differs from the usual form used by local native adults
- Specialized
A computer program that labels each word as a noun, verb, or adjective
- Specialized
How well people understand spoken words when there is background noise or bad sound
- Specialized
The way a person makes clear spoken words other people can understand
- Archaic
A set of written signs that shows how to make speech sounds with the mouth
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Speech comes from the same root as speak, meaning 'to say words', so in a play a character's speech is simply the words they are meant 'to say' on stage.