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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | native language |
| Synonyms: | first language, natal tongue, native speech, native tongue, parent language, vernacular |
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| Main Entry: | verbalization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discourse, discussion, double talk, doublespeak, elocution, enunciation, expressing, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue, native tongue, oral communication, palaver*, parlance, prattle, pronunciation, prose, speaking, spiel*, talk, tone, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocal expression, vocalization, vocalizing, voice, voicing |
* = 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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