Definizione monolingua

speech

Wikipedia speech (countable and uncountable; plural speeches)

1. (uncountable) The faculty of speech; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.

   It was hard to hear the sounds of his speech over the noise.

   He had a bad speech impediment.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XV and XVIII:

     I was at liberty to attend to Wilbert, who I could see desired speech with me. [...] As far as Bobbie and I were concerned, silence reigned, this novel twist in the scenario having wiped speech from our lips, as the expression is, but Phyllis continued vocal. [...] For perhaps a quarter of a minute after he had passed from the scene the aged relative stood struggling for utterance. At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!”

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

   The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and XII:

     Hes going to present the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. Weve been caught short as usual, and somebody has got to make a speech on ideals and the great world outside to those blasted boys, so he fits in nicely. I believe hes a very fine speaker. His only trouble is that hes stymied unless he has his speech with him and can read it. Calls it referring to his notes. [...] “So thats why hes been going about looking like a dead fish. I suppose Roberta broke the engagement?” “In a speech lasting five minutes without a pause for breath.”

Definizione dizionario speech

	discorso
	an oration, session of speaking
	An address or form of oral communication in which a speaker makes his thoughts and emotions known before an audience, often for a given purpose. (Source: RHW)

	parola
	vocal communication

lingua

arringa

conversazione

discussione

espressione

favella

idioma

indirizzo

linguaggio

orazione

parlare

parlata

preghiera

verbo

voce

Altri significati:

(one’s) speech

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

(uncountable) The faculty of speech; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.

(manner of) speaking