Usually means: Articulate thoughts using verbal communication.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word speak:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. speak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -speak, speak: Merriam-Webster
  3. -speak, speak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. speak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -speak, speak: Collins English Dictionary
  6. speak: Vocabulary.com
  7. Speak, speak: Wordnik
  8. -speak, speak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. -speak, speak: Wiktionary
  10. -speak, speak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. speak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. speak: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. -speak, speak: Dictionary.com
  14. speak: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. speak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SPEAK (animals), SPEAK (test), Speak (Anderson novel), Speak (Godsmack song), Speak (Hall novel), Speak (Hungarian rapper), Speak (Lindsay Lohan album), Speak (The Roches album), Speak (Unix), Speak (band), Speak (film), Speak (novel), Speak, Speak, Speak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Speak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. speak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. speak: Rhymezone
  20. speak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. speak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. speak: FreeDictionary.org
  23. speak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. speak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. speak: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Speak (disambiguation), speak: Legal dictionary
  2. speak: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speak: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPEAK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. speak: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. speak, speak, speak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Speak, speak (movie): Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See speakable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
verb:  (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
verb:  (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
verb:  (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
verb:  (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
verb:  (transitive) To utter.
verb:  (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
verb:  (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
verb:  (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
verb:  Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
noun:  (uncountable) language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
noun:  (countable) Speech, conversation.
noun:  (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
noun:  (countable, informal) Short for speaker point. [Each of the points awarded to an individual speaker in a formal debate for speaking and debating well.]

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