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1. The utterance of intelligible speech
   - speech production
    
2. Delivering an address to a public audience
   - public speaking, speechmaking, oral presentation

1. Capable of or involving speech or speaking
   "human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play"

1. Express in speech
   - talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise [Brit]
    
2. Exchange thoughts; talk with
   - talk
    
3. Use language
   "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
   - talk
    
4. Give a speech to
   - address
    
5. Make a characteristic or natural sound
   "The drums spoke"

Derived forms: speakings

See also: speak for, speak up, speaker, speech, tongued

Type of: address, communicate, intercommunicate, sound, speech, utterance, vocalization

Antonym: nonspeaking

Encyclopedia: Speak, Memory Speak, Bird, Speak Again Speak Speak, See, Remember Speak, Mnemosyne Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited