noun

• (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
  "He had a bad speech impediment."
• (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
  "It was hard to hear his speech over the noise."
• (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
  "The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech."
• (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
  "For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel."

verb

• (transitive, intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.
  "I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game."