ORAL PRESENTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Delivering an address to a public audience

Example:

people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking

Synonyms:

oral presentation; public speaking; speaking; speechmaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("oral presentation" is a kind of...):

address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oral presentation"):

reading; recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

debate; disputation; public debate (the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote))