| has gloss | (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
address, speech |
| lexicalization | eng: address |
| lexicalization | eng: speech |
| subclass of | (noun) the use of language to perform some act
speech act |
| has subclass | (noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
allocution |
| has subclass | (noun) an address to an academic meeting or seminar
colloquium |
| has subclass | (noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing
dithyramb |
| has subclass | (noun) an extemporaneous speech or remark; "a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated"
impromptu |
| has subclass | (noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president)
inaugural, inaugural address |
| has subclass | (noun) a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
lecture, talk, public lecture |
| has subclass | (noun) any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"
litany |
| has subclass | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
oratory |
| has subclass | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking"
speaking, public speaking, oral presentation, speechmaking |
| has subclass | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
sermon, discourse, preaching |
| has subclass | c/Cold War speeches |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Abraham Lincoln |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Barack Obama |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by George W. Bush |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by George Washington |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by John Adams |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by John F. Kennedy |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Margaret Thatcher |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Ronald Reagan |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Theodore Roosevelt |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by Winston Churchill |
| has subclass | c/Speeches by war |
| has subclass | c/United States presidential speeches |
| has instance | (noun) a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863)
Gettysburg Address |