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PUBLIC SPEAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does public speaking mean?
• PUBLIC SPEAKING (noun)
The noun PUBLIC SPEAKING has 1 sense:
1. delivering an address to a public audience
Familiarity information: PUBLIC SPEAKING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delivering an address to a public audience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
oral presentation; public speaking; speaking; speechmaking
Context example:
people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking
Hypernyms ("public speaking" is a kind of...):
address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public speaking"):
reading; recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)
debate; disputation; public debate (the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote))
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