Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SPEAK

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Definitions of SPEAK

1. Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
2. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
3. (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
4. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
5. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
6. (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
7. (transitive) To utter.
8. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
9. (informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
10. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
11. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
12. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
13. (uncountable) language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
14. (countable) Speech, conversation.
15. (countable, informal) Short for speaker point.

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Examples of Using SPEAK in a Sentence

• Approximately 117 million people speak an Austroasiatic language, of which more than two-thirds are Vietnamese speakers.
• Once seen, Artemis got revenge on Actaeon: she forbade him speech – if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag – for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery.
• Highly educated, Amalasuintha was praised by both Cassiodorus and Procopius for her wisdom and her ability to speak three languages (Greek, Gothic, and Latin).
• Because of this essential uniqueness, we often speak of the algebraic closure of K, rather than an algebraic closure of K.
• It is estimated that about 80 percent of the population of Mali speak Bambara as a first or second language.
• Early Sanskrit texts speak of them both as meditative visualizations combining flowers and mantras and as physical entities in the body.
• The view that various Bible passages speak of homosexuality as immoral or sinful emerged through its interpretation and has since become entrenched in many Christian denominations through church doctrine and the wording of various translations of the Bible.
• With Clarke as their primary songwriter, Depeche Mode released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981 amid the British new wave scene.
• Of these, the largest is the Tigrinya, who make up around 50% of the population; the Tigre people, who also speak a Ethiosemitic language, constitute around 30% of residents.
• The three groups share a relatively recent common ancestor, and speak related languages belonging to the family of Eskaleut languages.
• He was born in the small town of Rudiae, located near modern Lecce (ancient Calabria, today Salento), a town founded by the Messapians, and could speak Greek as well as Latin and Oscan (his native language).
• The high commissioner is allowed to speak in the Inatsisartut regarding common Danish/Greenlandic affairs, but is not allowed to vote.
• Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the billions of people who speak Romance languages, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.
• He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.
• They speak the Kashubian language, which is classified as a separate language closely related to Polish.
• Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages.
• The Kipsigis or Kipsigiis are a Nilotic group contingent of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak a dialect of the Kalenjin language identified by their community eponym, Kipsigis.
• The word laconic—to speak in a blunt, concise way—is derived from the name of this region, a reference to the ancient Spartans who were renowned for their verbal austerity and blunt, often pithy remarks.
• The strengths of Malta's economy are its advantageous location, being situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea at a crossroads between Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, its fully developed open market economy, multilingual population (88% of Maltese people speak English), productive labour force, low corporate tax and well developed finance and ICT clusters.
• Although few children native to the Isle of Man speak Manx as a first language, there has been a steady increase in the number of speakers since the death of Ned Maddrell in 1974.
• The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages.
• The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre, "to speak" and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction.
• They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan Oromoo), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
• That is, in a cards speak game, players all reveal their hands at the showdown, and whoever has the highest hand wins the high half of the pot and whoever has the lowest hand wins the low half.
• In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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