speech
speech
- n the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- n (language) communication by word of mouth
his speech was garbled - n something spoken
he could hear them uttering merry speeches - n the exchange of spoken words
they were perfectly comfortable together without speech - n your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
her speech was barren of southernisms
I detected a slight accent in his speech - n a lengthy rebuke
- n words making up the dialogue of a play
the actor forgot his speech - n the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- As he prepared for the biggest speech of his career, Obama spent late nights writing and trying to dampen expectations.
- Damascus The buildup for President Obama's speech today in Cairo has been prodigious, and not least by the White House, which has held the sort of briefings for journalists that .
- At this point, most of the noise about Barack Obama wanting to indoctrinate school children in a back-to-school speech has mostly faded from view.