Noun

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(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.

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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.

* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.

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A style of speaking.

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A dialect or language.

* Bible, (w) iii. 6

people of a strange speech

Talk; mention; rumour.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.

Noun

Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.

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