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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sermon |
| Synonyms: | doctrine, lecture, lesson |
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| Main Entry: | oration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | address, chalk talk, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk, pitch*, sermon, soapbox, spiel* |
| Antonyms: | print, writing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sermon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instructive speech with a moral |
| Synonyms: | address, advice, discourse, doctrine, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, lesson, moralism, pastoral, preach, preaching, preachment, tirade |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech, address to group |
| Synonyms: | allocution, chalk talk, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel* |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preaching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moralizing |
| Synonyms: | doctrine, exhortation, homily, instruction, sermon, teaching |
| Main Entry: | prelection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, talk, tirade, valedictory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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affected, alieniloquent, alliterative, altiloquent, antithetical, babblative, blandiloquent, bombastic, breviloquent, chrysostomatic, colloquial, communicate, communicative, concionative, declamatory, demegoric, diversiloquent, doctiloquent, drawling, elocutionary, eloquent, enunciative, euphuistic, explicit, expressive, facund, fallaciloquent, fatiloquent, flaming, flexiloquent, frothy, fustian, glossal, glossoepiglottic, gnomologic, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, inaniloquent, johnsonian, lingual, longiloquent, magniloquent, melliloquent, mendaciloquent, meropic, mincing, mouthy, multiloquent, not written, nuncupatory, omniloquent, oral, oratorical, orotund, outspoken, parrhesiastic, peripatetic, periphrastic, phatic, phemic, phonetic, phoniatric, plain, platitudinarian, pleniloquent, polyloquent, procacious, published, renable, rhetorical, sanctiloquent, sententious, sesquipedalian, sialoquent, singsong, slangous, soliloquacious, soliloqual, soliloquizing, somniloquacious, sonorous, spadish, speaking, spoken, stammering, stilted, stultiloquent, stuttering, suaviloquent, talkable, talkative, telepheme, totutiloquent, tremulous, tub, unlarded, unwritten, vaniloquent, ventose, veriloquent
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| Concept: | Speech. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; spoken language |
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speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion., oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy; allocution; interlocution; salutatory [U.S.]; screed: valedictory [U.S.]. oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence; burst of eloquence; facundity; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi., speaker; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore.
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