(countable) speech (a formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person) (oration, session of speaking)

nay, or rather, or should I say; moreover

(colloquial, derogatory, rhetoric) claptrap (empty verbiage or nonsense)

(sociology) hate speech (speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability)

(grammar, narratology) reported speech (form of speech used to express what another has said, often involving a change in tense) / (grammar) oratio obliqua (indirect speech/indirect statements)

(grammar, narratology) direct speech / (grammar) oratio directa (direct speech/direct statements)

(idiomatic) speak of the devil

(idiomatic) speak of the devil and he appears

(idiomatic) speech is silver, silence is golden

locative plural of mowa