oratory vs speech

speech vs oratory

oratory and speech both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
oratory	Yes	No	No	No
speech	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, speech is a hypernym of oratory; that is, speech is a word with a broader meaning than oratory:

oratory: addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
speech: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience

Other hypernyms of oratory include address.

oratory (noun)	speech (noun)
addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)	the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
	(language) communication by word of mouth
	the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
	words making up the dialogue of a play
	a lengthy rebuke
	the exchange of spoken words
	your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
	something spoken

Difference between oratory and speech

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