| Main Entry: | monologue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech by one person |
Synonyms: |
address, descant, discourse, disquisition, harangue, lecture, sermon, soliloquy, speech, stand-up bit, talk |
| Notes: | monologue comes from Greek and soliloquy from Latin, but both mean 'speaking alone' |
Antonyms: |
dialogue |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
Synonyms: |
address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, gabfest, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, tractate, treatise, utterance, verbalization |
Antonyms: |
quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | patter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | casual talk |
Synonyms: |
argot, cant, chatter, dialect, jabber, jargon, jive, line*, lingo, monologue, patois, pitch*, prattle*, slant*, spiel*, vernacular |
Antonyms: |
quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | recitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reading to audience |
Synonyms: |
address, appeal, declaiming, delivery, discourse, discoursing, discussion, exercise, holding forth, lecture, monologue, narrating, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, playing, proclamation, recital, recounting, rehearsal, rendering, report, selection, soliloquizing, speaking, talk, telling |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech, address to group |
Synonyms: |
allocution, chalk talk, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel* |
Antonyms: |
listening |
| Main Entry: | soliloquy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apostrophe |
Synonyms: |
aside, discourse, monologue, monology, speech |
| Notes: | monologue comes from Greek and soliloquy from Latin, but both mean 'speaking alone' |
| Main Entry: | soliloquy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech by one |
Synonyms: |
address, discourse, monologue, speech |
Antonyms: |
dialogue |
| Concept: | Soliloquy. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; spoken language |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology.
-verbs
soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think aloud, apostrophize.
-adjectives
soliloquizing.
-adverbs
aside.
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