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      speak
      noun
      (countable) Speech, conversation.
      (uncountable) Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
      (countable, informal) Clipping of speaker point. [Each of the points awarded to an individual speaker in a formal debate for speaking and debating well.]
      (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
      verb
      (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
      (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
      (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
      (transitive) To utter.
      (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
      (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
      (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
      (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
      Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
      (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
      (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
      (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
      Synonyms for speak
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      Words related to speak
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