the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals";
a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father''s idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to";
words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech";
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech";
(language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets";
the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech";
something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches";
the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets";
