Roget's Thesaurus

#582. Speech

Nouns

speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion. oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy etc. 589; allocution etc. 586; conversation etc. 588; salutatory; screed; valedictory [U.S.]. oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence; burst of eloquence; facundity; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum [Lat.]; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi [Lat.]. speaker etc. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore.

Verbs

speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue. break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice, raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak; put in a word or two, hold forth; make a speech, deliver a speech etc. n.; speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate etc. (speak at length) 573; speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.S.]. soliloquize etc. 589; tell etc. (inform) 527; speak to etc. 586; talk together etc. 588. be eloquent etc. adj.; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab etc. n.. pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.

Adjectives

speaking etc.; spoken etc. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent etc. 577; talkative etc. 584; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.

Adverbs

orally etc. adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.

Phrases

quoth he, said he etc.; action is eloquence [Coriolanus]; pour the full tide of eloquence along [Pope]; she speaks poignards and every word stabs [Much Ado About Nothing]; speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; to try thy eloquence now 'tis time [Antony and Cleopatra].