| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Spoken exchange: chat, colloquy, confabulation, conversation, converse1, dialogue, discourse, talk. Informal : confab. Slang : jaw. See WORDS. 2. A system of terms used by a people sharing a history and culture: dialect, language, tongue, vernacular. Linguistics : langue. See WORDS. 3. A usually formal oral communication to an audience: address, allocution, declamation, lecture, oration, prelection, talk. See WORDS. 4. The faculty, act, or product of speaking: discourse, talk, utterance, verbalization, vocalization. See WORDS.
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