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ORAL PRESENTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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))
