Definitions for speeches

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speeches speech

Spelling: [speech]

IPA: /spitʃ/

Speeches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in speeches (ceeehpss).

Definitions for speeches

noun

1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture:
2. the act of speaking:
3. something that is spoken; an utterance, remark, or declaration:
4. a form of communication in spoken language, made by a speaker before an audience for a given purpose:
5. any single utterance of an actor in the course of a play, motion picture, etc.
6. the form of utterance characteristic of a particular people or region; a language or dialect.
7. manner of speaking, as of a person:
8. a field of study devoted to the theory and practice of oral communication.
9. Archaic. rumor.

Origin of speeches

before 900; Middle English speche, Old English spǣc, variant of sprǣc, derivative of sprecan to speak; cognate with German Sprache

Examples for speeches

It means the "science of the sound which is made by our speech."

On the 5th of February the king attended and delivered the speech from the throne in person.

speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.

But Brother Stukely had been for some time rendered incapable of speech.

But sweet beyond words had been this speech from the bartender.

Freedom of speech, then, is sometimes not worth the trouble that comes with it.

Among his friends his speech was anticipated with lively interest.

This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.

It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.

There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.