speaking trumpet | a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice, formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person |
speaking tube | a tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another |
manner of speaking speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
public speaking speechmaking speaking oral presentation | delivering an address to a public audience, people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking |
glossolalia | repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) |
speak in tongues | speak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy, The parishioners spoke in tongues |
speaking(a) | capable of or involving speech or speaking, human beings--the speaking animals, a speaking part in the play |
Bantu-speaking | able to communicate in Bantu |
English-speaking | able to communicate in English |
Finno-Ugric-speaking | able to communicate in a Finno-Ugric language |
Flemish-speaking | able to communicate in Flemish |
French-speaking | able to communicate in French |
Gaelic-speaking | able to communicate in Gaelic |
German-speaking | able to communicate in German |
Icelandic-speaking | able to communicate in Icelandic |
Italian-speaking | able to communicate in Italian |
Japanese-speaking | able to communicate in Japanese |
Kannada-speaking | able to communicate in Kannada |
Livonian-speaking | able to communicate in Livonian |
Oscan-speaking | able to communicate in Oscan |
Russian-speaking | able to communicate in Russian |
Samoyedic-speaking | able to communicate in Samoyedic |
Semitic-speaking | able to communicate in a Semitic language |
Siouan-speaking | able to communicate in a Siouan language |
Spanish-speaking | able to communicate in Spanish |
Turkic-speaking | able to communicate in Turkic |
Bantu-speaking | of or relating to people who speak Bantu, the Bantu-speaking people of Africa |
broadly loosely broadly speaking generally | without regard to specific details or exceptions, he interprets the law broadly |
properly speaking strictly speaking to be precise | in actual fact, properly speaking, they are not husband and wife |