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oldspeak

oldspeak noun: standard English, not newspeak.

Noun (1)

oldspeak (usually uncountable, plural oldspeaks)

  1. (usually) Standard English, not newspeak

Proper noun capitalized: Oldspeak

Oldspeak

  1. Synonym of Standard English.
    • Newspeak words are divided into three classes, A for words denoting functional concepts of everyday life like eating, and sleeping, preserving many Oldspeak words.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet

Noun (2) capitalized: Oldspeak

Oldspeak (usually uncountable, plural Oldspeaks)

  1. (usually) Alternative letter-case form of oldspeak.

Synonyms of oldspeak

Forms of oldspeak

pluraloldspeaks
pluralOldspeaks

Origin of oldspeak

From Oldspeak, coined by George Orwell in 1949. Equivalent to old + speak.

From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Questions about oldspeak

What does oldspeak mean?
Oldspeak means standard English, not newspeak.
What part of speech is oldspeak?
Oldspeak can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of oldspeak?
The plural of oldspeak is oldspeaks.

Words near oldspeak in the dictionary

  1. oldskool
  2. Oldsmar
  3. Oldsmobile
  4. Oldsmobiles
  5. oldsome
  6. oldspeak
  7. oldsquaw
  8. oldsquaws
  9. Oldstead
  10. oldster
  11. oldsters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oldspeak (page history and authors); Oldspeak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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