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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
| Synonyms: | approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a lesson, speech |
| Synonyms: | address, declaim, deliver, discourse, expound, get on a soapbox, give a talk, harangue, hold forth, orate, prelect, recite, speak, spiel*, spout, talk, teach |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pontificate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sermonize |
| Synonyms: | address, admonish, dogmatize, evangelize, get on a soapbox, give sermon, harangue, lecture, minister, moralize, preach, pulpiteer, teach |
| Main Entry: | preach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lecture, moralize |
| Synonyms: | admonish, advocate, blow, exhort, get on a soapbox, harangue, pile it on, preachify, sermonize, talk big, urge |
| Main Entry: | proclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | advertise, make known |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, annunciate, blast, blaze, blazon, broadcast, call, circulate, declare, demonstrate, disseminate, enunciate, evidence, evince, exhibit, expound, get on a soapbox, give out, herald, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, ostend, pass the word, profess, promulgate, publish, shoot off mouth, shout out, show, sound off, spiel*, spout, spread it around, stump, trumpet, utter, vent, ventilate, voice |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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