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| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
| Synonyms: | address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, treatise, utterance, gabfest, tractate, verbalization |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | oration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | address, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk*, pitch*, sermon, spiel*, chalk talk, soapbox |
| Antonyms: | print, writing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sermon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instructive speech with a moral |
| Synonyms: | address, advice, discourse, doctrine, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, lesson, pastoral, preach, preaching, tirade, moralism, preachment |
| Main Entry: | preaching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moralizing |
| Synonyms: | doctrine, exhortation, homily, instruction, sermon, teaching |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech, address to group |
| Synonyms: | declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, recitation, sermon, spiel*, allocution, chalk talk, expatiation, peroration, prelection, screed |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, bombast, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk*, pitch, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump*, tirade, valedictory, allocution, chalk talk, prelection |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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