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There are 610 total results for your Speech search. I have created 7 pages of results for you. Each page contains 100 results...

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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

Variations:
少年よ、大志を抱け
少年よ大志を抱け(sK)

see styles
 shounenyo、taishioidake / shonenyo、taishioidake
    しょうねんよ、たいしをいだけ
(expression) (quote) (from a speech by William Smith Clark) boys, be ambitious

Variations:
弁(P)
辯(oK)
瓣(oK)
辨(oK)

see styles
 ben
    べん
(1) (弁, 辯 only) speech; tongue; talk; eloquence; (suffix noun) (2) (弁, 辯 only) dialect; brogue; accent; (3) (弁, 辨 only) (abbreviation) (See 弁当) bento; Japanese box lunch; (4) (弁, 瓣 only) petal; (5) (弁, 瓣 only) valve; (6) (弁, 辨 only) (hist) (See 太政官・2,弁官) Oversight Department; division of the daijokan under the ritsuryō system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices

Variations:
雄弁は銀、沈黙は金
雄弁は銀沈黙は金(sK)

see styles
 yuubenhagin、chinmokuhakin / yubenhagin、chinmokuhakin
    ゆうべんはぎん、ちんもくはきん
(expression) (proverb) speech is silver, silence is golden

Variations:
シャドーイング
シャドウイング
シャドゥイング

see styles
 shadooingu; shadouingu; shadodoingu / shadooingu; shadoingu; shadodoingu
    シャドーイング; シャドウイング; シャドゥイング
(noun/participle) (1) (speech) shadowing; repeating speech immediately after hearing it; (noun/participle) (2) {comp} projective shadowing; shadow mapping

Variations:
滔々
滔滔(sK)
濤々(sK)
濤濤(sK)

see styles
 toutou / toto
    とうとう
(adv-to,adj-t) (1) (kana only) torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing; (adv-to,adj-t) (2) (kana only) (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech); (adv-to,adj-t) (3) (kana only) flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

Variations:
舌足らず
舌っ足らず(io)
舌たらず(sK)

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 shitatarazu(舌足razu); shitattarazu(舌足razu)
    したたらず(舌足らず); したったらず(舌っ足らず)
(n,adj-na,adj-no) (1) unclear speech; garbled speech; poor enunciation; (adj-no,adj-na,n) (2) poorly expressed; unclear (wording); imprecise (expression); inadequate (explanation)

Variations:
話(P)
話し(io)
咄(rK)
噺(rK)

see styles
 hanashi
    はなし
(1) (話, 話し only) talk; speech; chat; conversation; (2) topic; subject; (3) (話, 話し only) discussions; negotiation; argument; (4) rumor; talk; hearsay; (5) tale; story; fable; (6) circumstances; particulars

Variations:
アーティキュレーション
アーティキュレイション(sk)

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 aatikyureeshon; aatikyureishon(sk) / atikyureeshon; atikyureshon(sk)
    アーティキュレーション; アーティキュレイション(sk)
(1) {music} articulation; (2) articulation (of speech sounds)

Variations:
言葉遣い(P)
言葉使い
言葉づかい
ことば遣い(sK)

see styles
 kotobazukai
    ことばづかい
speech; expression; wording; language

Variations:
聴きどころ
聴き所
聞き所
聞きどころ(sK)
聴き処(sK)

see styles
 kikidokoro
    ききどころ
important part (to listen to); the point (of a speech); interesting part; best part (of a piece of music or performance)

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Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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