n. Function: noun
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Synonyms: SPEECH 1, speaking, talk, utterance, verbalization
2 a systematic, serious, and often learned exposition of a subject or topic FF1C; his discourses during the seminar were long remembered FF1E;
Synonyms: disquisition, dissertation, memoir, monograph, monography, thesis, tractate, treatise
Related Words: article, essay, paper; lecture, sermon; rhetoric, speech, talk