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

(en-noun)

A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself.

A language or dialect.

Specifically, a particular variety of language; a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.

* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), "The Other'' L-Word", ''Vanity Fair , 13 Jan 2010:

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young.

An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.

An expression peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language, especially when the meaning is illogical or separate from the meanings of its component words.

* 2008 , Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May (editors), Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life , Minnesota Historical Society, ISBN 9780873516303, page 134:

You’re history , we say . Surely it is an American idiom . Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.

(programming) A programming construct or phraseology generally held to be the most efficient, elegant or effective means to achieve a particular result or behavior.

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