| has gloss | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
oratory |
| lexicalization | eng: oratory |
| subclass of | (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
address, speech |
| has subclass | (noun) a speech setting forth the keynote
keynote speech, keynote address |
| has subclass | (noun) an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election; "the nomination was brief and to the point"
nominating address, nomination, nominating speech |
| has subclass | (noun) an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
oration |
| has subclass | (noun) vehement oratory
declamation |
| has subclass | (noun) a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people; "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory"
epideictic oratory |
| has subclass | (noun) political oratory
stump speech |
| has subclass | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises)
salutatory, salutatory oration, salutatory address |
| has subclass | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
valedictory oration, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address |