noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• the refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo ➜ 下町言葉・山の手

expression:

• speech is silver, silence is golden - proverb

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be careful in speech

noun:

• speech contest

noun:

• campaign (vote-getting) speech (for a candidate)

expression:

• speech is silver, silence is golden - proverb

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of speech (with sentences ending in "da") ➜ である体

noun:

• speech meeting; oratorical meeting; meeting to hear a speech

noun:

• hate speech

noun:

• one's speech and appearance

noun:

• speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble
• blowoff; effusion; blowing; venting
• blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)

noun:

• teyo-dawa speech; mid-Meiji period schoolgirl slang in which sentence-end particles "teyo" and "dawa" were used prominently

noun:

• propaganda speech; inflammatory speech

noun:

• inaugural speech

noun:

• clipping off the beginning of a speech transmission - IT term

noun:

• eight parts of speech (in traditional English grammar, etc.) - obscure term - Linguistics term

noun:

• policy speech

noun:

• figure of speech

noun:

• speech of encouragement; pep talk

noun:

• opposing speech; rebuttal (in debate)

noun:

• coarse speech or writing; humble reference to one's own words

noun:

• speech impediment; lalopathy

noun:

• indirect speech; indirect narration - Linguistics term

noun:

• part-of-speech classification - Linguistics term