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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | farewell |
| Synonyms: | departing, final, goodbye, last, parting, terminal |
| Notes: | a closing address is valedictory and valedictorian means 'farewell'; a welcoming address is salutatory |
| Antonyms: | welcoming |
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| 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: | good-bye |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | parting |
| Synonyms: | departing, farewell, final, goodbye*, last, valedictory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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-nouns
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.
-verbs
speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out; have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue., break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice, raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak; put in a word or two., hold forth; make a speech, deliver a speech; speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.S.]., soliloquize; tell (inform); speak to; talk together., be eloquent; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.
-adjectives
speaking, spoken; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent; talkative; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
-adverbs
orally; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
-phrases
quoth he, said he; "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; "pour the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]; "she speaks poignards and every word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time"
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