speeches

noun

plural of speech
1
as in lectures
a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience the guest of honor gave a short speech in appreciation of the award

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2
as in languages
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech

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Recent Examples of speeches Then there are swearing in speeches for interim officeholders, like today’s from Rob Harrington. — Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026 After Starmer spoke, several lawmakers in the House of Commons made emotional speeches about their own experiences. — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026 Many people have loved the phrase, but no one loved it more than Ronald Reagan, who used it over and over again in his campaign speeches and his presidential speeches, and most notably in his farewell address in 1989. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026 Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery. — ABC News, 2 July 2026 Presidential election year Republican and Democratic conventions are also high-profile television events, drawing tens of millions of viewers as major networks broadcast key speeches. — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Richmond Richmond may not have the immediate colonial connotations of some of the other cities in Virginia, but one of the most significant speeches of the Revolutionary era happened right in downtown Richmond. — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 1 July 2026 There have been just 12 speeches and interviews by Fed officials since the June FOMC meeting, including events scheduled through the end of this week, according to strategists at Bank of America. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 July 2026 Using 2,500 surviving speeches as source material, Perl-Rosenthal demonstrates that early generations of Americans viewed the Revolution as fragile and incomplete. — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speeches
  1. talks
  2. languages
  3. sermons
  4. vocabularies
  5. orations
  6. tongues
  7. addresses
  8. idioms
Noun
  • Qatar also said technical talks between Iran and the United States are continuing, but there are currently no high-level meetings between the two.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • The Iranian regime’s apparent hesitancy to resume in-person talks is a significant step back from the high-level talks that took place in Switzerland earlier this month following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the countries.
    — Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Definition of talks
Noun
  • In recent years China’s Communist Party has ramped up oversight of religious institutions, rolled back the use of ethnic minority languages in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • Among other things, the council revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other religions and the laity, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than Latin.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Definition of languages
Noun
  • Stylistically, this encyclopedic catch-all of genres readily segues from sermons and soliloquies to thrilling action sequences and anguished cris de coeur.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • This doesn’t mean that sermons are sedating people, said the team.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 July 2026
Definition of sermons
Noun
  • Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think?
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • But more variations of Austronesian languages have been identified in Taiwan, accompanied with more intricate grammatical structures and expansive vocabularies, which has provided insights for linguists.
    — Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
Definition of vocabularies
Noun
  • Afterward, the orations turned to internal divisions, particularly those related to slavery.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • The greatest of all Fourth of July orations was delivered in 1852, on the 76th anniversary of American independence, by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
Definition of orations
Noun
  • The results have often left me highly frustrated, but also have given me indescribable joy at the fact of having absorbed (although only partially, of course) some of the elusive beauty of those marvelous, magical, mysteriously alluring tongues.
    — Douglas Hofstadter, Time, 30 June 2026
  • The scene when Emily Blunt speaks in alien tongues was deeply spooky.
    — Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of tongues
Noun
  • As per the news release, Gripen addresses advanced threats in demanding environments.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026
  • More than 3,800 addresses are still under mandatory evacuation in both counties.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 July 2026
Definition of addresses
Noun
  • On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
    — Douglas Hofstadter, Time, 30 June 2026
Definition of idioms

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