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oracy

oracy noun: the ability to speak, and to understand spoken language.

Noun

oracy (countable and uncountable, plural oracies)

  1. (uncountable) The ability to speak, and to understand spoken language
  2. (countable) A measure of this ability

oracy meaning in Kannada

oracy in Kannada

ವಾಕ್ಪಟುತ್ವ, ವಾಗ್ವಶ್ಯತೆ, ವಕ್ತೃತ್ವ

Forms of oracy

pluraloracies

Origin of oracy

From oral + -cy, by analogy with literacy. Coined by the British education researcher Andrew Wilkinson in 1965.

Questions about oracy

What does oracy mean?
Oracy means the ability to speak, and to understand spoken language.
What is oracy in Kannada?
Oracy in Kannada is ವಾಕ್ಪಟುತ್ವ, ವಾಗ್ವಶ್ಯತೆ, ವಕ್ತೃತ್ವ. See Oracy meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is oracy?
Oracy is a noun.
What is the plural of oracy?
The plural of oracy is oracies.

Words near oracy in the dictionary

  1. oracularly
  2. oracularness
  3. oraculous
  4. oraculously
  5. oraculousness
  6. oracy
  7. orad
  8. Oradea
  9. Oradell
  10. oragious
  11. Oraha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oracy (page history and authors); oracy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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