Word.ws English Dictionary

running speech

running speech noun: the continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences.

Noun

running speech (uncountable)

  1. The continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences.

Questions about running speech

What does running speech mean?
Running speech means the continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences.
What part of speech is running speech?
Running speech is a noun.

Words near running speech in the dictionary

  1. running someone ragged
  2. running someone's file
  3. running something up the flagpole
  4. running sore
  5. running sores
  6. running speech
  7. Running Springs
  8. running start
  9. running starts
  10. running stationer
  11. running stationers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: running speech (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “running speech.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/running_speech. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.