KEYNOTE SPEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keynote speech mean? 

• KEYNOTE SPEECH (noun)
  The noun KEYNOTE SPEECH has 1 sense:

1. a speech setting forth the keynote

  Familiarity information: KEYNOTE SPEECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEYNOTE SPEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speech setting forth the keynote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

keynote address; keynote speech

Hypernyms ("keynote speech" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Meronyms (parts of "keynote speech"):

keynote (the principal theme in a speech or literary work)