Usually means: Verbal communication using language sounds.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word speech:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. speech: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. speech: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. speech: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. speech: Collins English Dictionary
  5. speech: Vocabulary.com
  6. Speech, speech: Wordnik
  7. speech: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. speech: Wiktionary
  9. speech: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. speech: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. speech: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. speech: Dictionary.com
  13. speech: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. speech: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Speech (album), Speech (disambiguation), Speech (performer), Speech (public address), Speech (rapper), Speech, The Speech (Sanders book), The Speech (book), The Speech (disambiguation), The Speech (fiction), The Speech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Speech: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. speech: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. speech: Rhymezone
  19. speech, speech (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. speech: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Speech: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. speech: Free Dictionary
  23. speech: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. speech: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. speech: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. speech: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speech: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Speech: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. speech: Medical dictionary
  7. Speech: Brain Injury
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. speech, speech: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. speech: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speech: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See speeching as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
noun:  (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
noun:  (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
noun:  (uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
noun:  (grammar) An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
noun:  (uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.

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