Usually means: Reporting someone's words indirectly.
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  1. indirect speech: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. indirect speech: Collins English Dictionary
  3. indirect speech: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. indirect speech: Wiktionary
  5. indirect speech: Dictionary.com
  6. Indirect speech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. indirect speech: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. indirect speech: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. indirect speech: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (indirect speech)

▸ noun:  (grammar, narratology) reported speech

Similar:
speech, second-hand speech, tattling, colloquialese, jargoning, voicer, chuchotage, running speech, verbal, hearsay, more...

Opposite:
direct speech, quoted speech, reported speech

Types:
reported speech, dramatic monologue, more...

Phrases:
free indirect speech, more...

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Similar:
speech, second-hand speech, tattling, colloquialese, jargoning, voicer, chuchotage, running speech, verbal, hearsay, more...

Opposite:
direct speech, quoted speech, reported speech

Types:
reported speech, dramatic monologue, more...

Phrases:
free indirect speech, more...



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