ORAL COMMUNICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oral communication mean? 

• ORAL COMMUNICATION (noun)
  The noun ORAL COMMUNICATION has 1 sense:

1. (language) communication by word of mouth

  Familiarity information: ORAL COMMUNICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORAL COMMUNICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(language) communication by word of mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

language; oral communication; speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; voice communication

Context example:

he recorded the spoken language of the streets

Hypernyms ("oral communication" is a kind of...):

auditory communication (communication that relies on hearing)

Domain category:

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oral communication"):

words (the words that are spoken)

orthoepy; pronunciation (the way a word or a language is customarily spoken)

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

discussion; give-and-take; word (an exchange of views on some topic)

expression; locution; saying (a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations)

non-standard speech (speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community)

idiolect (the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life)

monologue (a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation))

charm; magic spell; magical spell; spell (a verbal formula believed to have magical force)

dictation (speech intended for reproduction in writing)

monologue; soliloquy (speech you make to yourself)