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• harangue address, event
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• parlance talk, utterance
• speaking utterance, presentation
• declamation words, formal talk to audience
• conversation utterance, communication
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Synonyms for speech

• communication
• conversation
• articulation
• intercourse
• verbal communication
• verbal expression
• pronunciation
• enunciation
• disquisition

the faculty, act, or product of speaking

• verbalization
• vocalization

spoken exchange

• confabulation

a usually formal oral communication to an audience

• declamation

a system of terms used by a people sharing a history and culture

The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience, related words.

• introduction
• inaugural address
• public lecture
• oral presentation
• public speaking
• speechmaking

(language) communication by word of mouth

• oral communication
• speech communication
• spoken communication
• spoken language
• voice communication
• linguistic communication
• auditory communication
• give-and-take
• non-standard speech
• magic spell
• magical spell

something spoken

The exchange of spoken words.

• speech production

your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

• manner of speaking
• expressive style
• paralanguage
• paralinguistic communication
• tone of voice

a lengthy rebuke

• reprehension
• curtain lecture

words making up the dialogue of a play

• actor's line

the mental faculty or power of vocal communication

• mental faculty
• mental lexicon
• spectral color
• spectral colour
• spectrogram
• spectrograph
• spectrographic analysis
• spectrometer
• spectrometry
• spectrophotometer
• spectroscope
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• spectroscopic analysis
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• spectrum analysis
• spectrum line
• speculation
• speculative
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Synonyms of 'speech' in British English

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• " he listened to an address on minor Roman poets "
• address (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored ; the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with ; the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; the manner of speaking to another individual; a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described ; written directions for finding some location; the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball ; social skill ; speak to; give a speech to; put an address on (an envelope) ; direct a question at someone ; address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question ; greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; access or locate by address ; act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; speak to someone ; adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
• " his speech was garbled "
• " he uttered harsh language "
• " he recorded the spoken language of the streets "
• speech communication (language) communication by word of mouth
• spoken communication (language) communication by word of mouth
• spoken language (language) communication by word of mouth
• language a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; (language) communication by word of mouth; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
• voice communication (language) communication by word of mouth
• oral communication (language) communication by word of mouth
• " he could hear them uttering merry speeches "
• " they were perfectly comfortable together without speech "
• " his manner of speaking was quite abrupt "
• " her speech was barren of southernisms "
• " I detected a slight accent in his speech "
• manner of speaking your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
• delivery the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); the event of giving birth; your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another ; (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter ; recovery or preservation from loss or danger; the act of delivering a child
• " a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline "
• " the teacher gave him a talking to "
• lecture deliver a lecture or talk; censure severely or angrily; a speech that is open to the public; a lengthy rebuke; teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
• talking to a lengthy rebuke
• " the actor forgot his speech "
• actor's line words making up the dialogue of a play
• words the words that are spoken; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; language that is spoken or written; an angry dispute; words making up the dialogue of a play
• " language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals "
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Thesaurus Definition of speak

Synonyms & Similar Words

• put into words
• pipe up (with)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• take the floor
• soliloquize
• pontificate

Phrases Containing speak

• speak (for)
• speak (to or with)
• speak one's mind

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2. speech-read

3. speech-endowed.

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.

• oral presentation
• inaugural address
• speechmaking
• introduction
• public speaking
• public lecture
• unrestrained
• speche (Middle English (1100-1500))
• spæc (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

How do you pronounce speech?

Pronounce speech as spiʧ.

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A common misspelling of speech is speach

Sentences with speech

1. Noun, singular or mass Some people prefer to keep the name of the winner a secret until the end of the speech . 2. Adjective A customer service award speech example might be: “_Darlene is a customer favorite. 3. Verb, base form HealthLinkBC points out children who are regularly exposed to speech and language tend to develop language skills faster 25.

Quotes about speech

1. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman 2. Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. - Johnny Weir 3. She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech . - George Bernard Shaw

verb. interpret by lipreading; of deaf people.

adjective. capable of speech.

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] (language) communication by word of mouth.

• speech communication
• spoken communication
• voice communication
• spoken language
• oral communication
• magic spell
• auditory communication
• non-standard speech
• give-and-take
• pronunciation
• conversation
• magical spell
• communicative

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] something spoken.

• vocalization

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] a lengthy rebuke.

• curtain lecture
• reprehension
• monetization

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] the exchange of spoken words.

• speech production

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally.

• tone of voice
• paralanguage
• paralinguistic communication
• expressive style
• manner of speaking

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] words making up the dialogue of a play.

• actor's line
• tactlessness

noun. ['ˈspiːtʃ'] the mental faculty or power of vocal communication.

• mental faculty
• continuance

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Words for Speaking: 30 Speech Verbs in English (With Audio)

Speaking is amazing, don’t you think?

Words and phrases come out of our mouths — they communicate meaning, and we humans understand each other (well, sometimes)!

But there are countless different ways of speaking.

Sometimes, we express ourselves by speaking quietly, loudly, angrily, unclearly or enthusiastically.

And sometimes, we can express ourselves really well without using any words at all — just sounds.

When we describe what someone said, of course we can say, “He said …” or “She said …”

But there are so many alternatives to “say” that describe the many different WAYS of speaking.

Here are some of the most common ones.

Words for talking loudly in English

Shout / yell / scream.

Sometimes you just need to say something LOUDLY!

Maybe you’re shouting at your kids to get off the climbing frame and come inside before the storm starts.

Or perhaps you’re just one of those people who just shout a lot of the time when you speak. And that’s fine. I’ve got a friend like that. He says it’s because he’s the youngest kid in a family full of brothers and sisters — he had to shout to make sure people heard him. And he still shouts.

Yelling is a bit different. When you yell, you’re probably angry or surprised or even in pain. Yelling is a bit shorter and more “in-the-moment.”

Screaming is similar but usually higher in pitch and full of fear or pain or total fury, like when you’ve just seen a ghost or when you’ve dropped a box of bricks on your foot.

“Stop yelling at me! I’m sorry! I made a mistake, but there’s no need to shout!”

Bark / Bellow / Roar

When I hear these words, I always imagine something like this:

These verbs all feel rather masculine, and you imagine them in a deep voice.

I always think of an army general walking around the room telling people what to do.

That’s probably why we have the phrase “to bark orders at someone,” which means to tell people what to do in an authoritative, loud and aggressive way.

“I can’t stand that William guy. He’s always barking orders at everyone!”

Shriek / Squeal / Screech

Ooooohhh …. These do not sound nice.

These are the sounds of a car stopping suddenly.

Or the sound a cat makes when you tread on her tail.

Or very overexcited kids at a birthday party after eating too much sugar.

These verbs are high pitched and sometimes painful to hear.

“When I heard her shriek , I ran to the kitchen to see what it was. Turned out it was just a mouse.”

“As soon as she opened the box and saw the present, she let out a squeal of delight!”

Wailing is also high pitched, but not so full of energy.

It’s usually full of sadness or even anger.

When I think of someone wailing, I imagine someone completely devastated — very sad — after losing someone they love.

You get a lot of wailing at funerals.

“It’s such a mess!” she wailed desperately. “It’ll take ages to clear up!”

Words for speaking quietly in English

When we talk about people speaking in quiet ways, for some reason, we often use words that we also use for animals.

In a way, this is useful, because we can immediately get a feel for the sound of the word.

This is the sound that snakes make.

Sometimes you want to be both quiet AND angry.

Maybe someone in the theatre is talking and you can’t hear what Hamlet’s saying, so you hiss at them to shut up.

Or maybe you’re hanging out with Barry and Naomi when Barry starts talking about Naomi’s husband, who she split up with last week.

Then you might want to hiss this information to Barry so that Naomi doesn’t hear.

But Naomi wasn’t listening anyway — she was miles away staring into the distance.

“You’ll regret this!” he hissed , pointing his finger in my face.

To be fair, this one’s a little complicated.

Whimpering is a kind of traumatised, uncomfortable sound.

If you think of a frightened animal, you might hear it make some kind of quiet, weak sound that shows it’s in pain or unhappy.

Or if you think of a kid who’s just been told she can’t have an ice cream.

Those sounds might be whimpers.

“Please! Don’t shoot me!” he whimpered , shielding his head with his arms.

Whispering is when you speak, but you bypass your vocal cords so that your words sound like wind.

In a way, it’s like you’re speaking air.

Which is a pretty cool way to look at it.

This is a really useful way of speaking if you’re into gossiping.

“Hey! What are you whispering about? Come on! Tell us! We’ll have no secrets here!”

Words for speaking negatively in English

Ranting means to speak at length about a particular topic.

However, there’s a bit more to it than that.

Ranting is lively, full of passion and usually about something important — at least important to the person speaking.

Sometimes it’s even quite angry.

We probably see rants most commonly on social media — especially by PEOPLE WHO LOVE USING CAPS LOCK AND LOTS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!

Ranting always sounds a little mad, whether you’re ranting about something reasonable, like the fact that there’s too much traffic in the city, or whether you’re ranting about something weird, like why the world is going to hell and it’s all because of people who like owning small, brown dogs.

“I tried to talk to George, but he just started ranting about the tax hike.”

“Did you see Jemima’s most recent Facebook rant ? All about how squirrels are trying to influence the election results with memes about Macaulay Culkin.”

Babble / Blabber / Blather / Drone / Prattle / Ramble

These words all have very similar meanings.

First of all, when someone babbles (or blabbers or blathers or drones or prattles or rambles), it means they are talking for a long time.

And probably not letting other people speak.

And, importantly, about nothing particularly interesting or important.

You know the type of person, right?

You run into a friend or someone you know.

All you do is ask, “How’s life?” and five minutes later, you’re still listening to them talking about their dog’s toilet problems.

They just ramble on about it for ages.

These verbs are often used with the preposition “on.”

That’s because “on” often means “continuously” in phrasal verbs .

So when someone “drones on,” it means they just talk for ages about nothing in particular.

“You’re meeting Aunt Thelma this evening? Oh, good luck! Have fun listening to her drone on and on about her horses.”

Groan / Grumble / Moan

These words simply mean “complain.”

There are some small differences, though.

When you groan , you probably don’t even say any words. Instead, you just complain with a sound.

When you grumble , you complain in a sort of angry or impatient way. It’s not a good way to get people to like you.

Finally, moaning is complaining, but without much direction.

You know the feeling, right?

Things are unfair, and stuff isn’t working, and it’s all making life more difficult than it should be.

We might not plan to do anything about it, but it definitely does feel good to just … complain about it.

Just to express your frustration about how unfair it all is and how you’ve been victimised and how you should be CEO by now and how you don’t get the respect you deserve and …

Well, you get the idea.

If you’re frustrated with things, maybe you just need to find a sympathetic ear and have a good moan.

“Pietor? He’s nice, but he does tend to grumble about the local kids playing football on the street.”

Words for speaking unclearly in English

Mumble / murmur / mutter.

These verbs are all very similar and describe speaking in a low and unclear way, almost like you’re speaking to yourself.

Have you ever been on the metro or the bus and seen someone in the corner just sitting and talking quietly and a little madly to themselves?

That’s mumbling (or murmuring or muttering).

What’s the difference?

Good question!

The differences are just in what type of quiet and unclear speaking you’re doing.

When someone’s mumbling , it means they’re difficult to understand. You might want to ask them to speak more clearly.

Murmuring is more neutral. It might be someone praying quietly to themselves, or you might even hear the murmur of voices behind a closed door.

Finally, muttering is usually quite passive-aggressive and has a feeling of complaining to it.

“I could hear him muttering under his breath after his mum told him off.”

How can you tell if someone’s been drinking too much booze (alcohol)?

Well, apart from the fact that they’re in the middle of trying to climb the traffic lights holding a traffic cone and wearing grass on their head, they’re also slurring — their words are all sort of sliding into each other. Like this .

This can also happen if you’re super tired.

“Get some sleep! You’re slurring your words.”

Stammer / Stutter

Th-th-th-this is wh-wh-when you try to g-g-g-get the words ou-ou-out, but it’s dif-dif-dif-difficu-… hard.

For some people, this is a speech disorder, and the person who’s doing it can’t help it.

If you’ve seen the 2010 film The King’s Speech , you’ll know what I’m talking about.

(Also you can let me know, was it good? I didn’t see it.)

This can also happen when you’re frightened or angry or really, really excited — and especially when you’re nervous.

That’s when you stammer your words.

“No … I mean, yeah … I mean no…” Wendy stammered .

Other words for speaking in English

If you drawl (or if you have a drawl), you speak in a slow way, maaakiiing the voowweeel sounds loooongeer thaan noormaal.

Some people think this sounds lazy, but I think it sounds kind of nice and relaxed.

Some regional accents, like Texan and some Australian accents, have a drawl to them.

“He was the first US President who spoke with that Texan drawl .”

“Welcome to cowboy country,” he drawled .

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

That’s my impression of a dog there.

I was growling.

If you ever go cycling around remote Bulgarian villages, then you’re probably quite familiar with this sound.

There are dogs everywhere, and sometimes they just bark.

But sometimes, before barking, they growl — they make that low, threatening, throaty sound.

And it means “stay away.”

But people can growl, too, especially if they want to be threatening.

“‘Stay away from my family!’ he growled .”

Using speaking verbs as nouns

We can use these speaking verbs in the same way we use “say.”

For example, if someone says “Get out!” loudly, we can say:

“‘Get out!’ he shouted .”

However, most of the verbs we looked at today are also used as nouns. (You might have noticed in some of the examples.)

For example, if we want to focus on the fact that he was angry when he shouted, and not the words he used, we can say:

“He gave a shout of anger.”

We can use these nouns with various verbs, usually “ give ” or “ let out .”

“She gave a shout of surprise.”

“He let out a bellow of laughter.”

“I heard a faint murmur through the door.”

There you have it: 30 alternatives to “say.”

So next time you’re describing your favourite TV show or talking about the dramatic argument you saw the other day, you’ll be able to describe it more colourfully and expressively.

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Words related to speech.

Below is a massive list of speech words - that is, words related to speech. The top 4 are: language , expression , words and address . You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with speech, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common speech terms by using the menu below, and there's also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get speech words starting with a particular letter. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. So for example, you could enter "language" and click "filter", and it'd give you words that are related to speech and language.

You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to speech, then there's probably no need for this.

There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related , or even loosely associated words. So although you might see some synonyms of speech in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with speech - you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. So it's the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a speech vocabulary list, or just a general speech word list for whatever purpose, but it's not necessarily going to be useful if you're looking for words that mean the same thing as speech (though it still might be handy for that).

If you're looking for names related to speech (e.g. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. The results below obviously aren't all going to be applicable for the actual name of your pet/blog/startup/etc., but hopefully they get your mind working and help you see the links between various concepts. If your pet/blog/etc. has something to do with speech, then it's obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with speech.

If you don't find what you're looking for in the list below, or if there's some sort of bug and it's not displaying speech related words, please send me feedback using this page. Thanks for using the site - I hope it is useful to you! 🐜

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• manner of speaking
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• valedictory
• graduation ceremony
• introduction
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• thunderous applause
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• verbalization
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Each list of articulation sounds contains words with the target sound in the beginning, middle, and end position, including blends when applicable, as well as words that...

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If "R" is the problem sound using the word "Rope" makes saying the "R" sound harder because the "O" sound is considered a round vowel.

A round vowel is one where you round your lips to say it. Go ahead...try it by saying "O" as in "boat". You rounded your lips didn't you? I thought you might.

Children who have difficulty with the "R" sound tend to say the "W" sound...they say "Wabbit" instead of "Rabbit".

The "W" sound is considered a rounded sound too. Try saying the "W" sound without rounding your lips...you can't because that is how the sound is made.

So by pairing the "R" sound with the "O" sound like in the word "Rope", this makes the word extra difficult for a child who has a problem saying the "R" sound because the "O" that follows the "R" will naturally make them want to round there lips.

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