| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
Synonyms: |
approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a long lecture |
Synonyms: |
accost, address, apostrophize, buttonhole, chew out, declaim, exhort, get on a soapbox, go on about, hold forth, orate, perorate, rant, rave, soapbox, spiel*, spout, stump, talk to, yell at |
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a lesson, speech |
Synonyms: |
address, declaim, deliver, discourse, expound, get on a soapbox, give a talk, harangue, hold forth, orate, prelect, recite, speak, spiel*, spout, talk, teach |
| Main Entry: | pontificate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sermonize |
Synonyms: |
address, admonish, dogmatize, evangelize, get on a soapbox, give sermon, harangue, lecture, minister, moralize, preach, pulpiteer, teach |
| Main Entry: | preach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lecture, moralize |
Synonyms: |
admonish, advocate, blow, exhort, get on a soapbox, harangue, pile it on, preachify, sermonize, talk big, urge |
| Main Entry: | proclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | advertise, make known |
Synonyms: |
affirm, announce, annunciate, blast, blaze, blazon, broadcast, call, circulate, declare, demonstrate, disseminate, enunciate, evidence, evince, exhibit, expound, get on a soapbox, give out, herald, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, ostend, pass the word, profess, promulgate, publish, shoot off mouth, shout out, show, sound off, spiel*, spout, spread it around, stump, trumpet, utter, vent, ventilate, voice |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide |