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speech communities

speech communities is the plural of speech community.

Meaning of speech community

Noun

speech community (plural speech communities)

  1. A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language
    • The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker.1897, William Pierce Shepard, A contribution to the history of the unaccented vowels in Old French, page 17

Questions about speech communities

What is speech communities the plural of?
Speech communities is the plural of speech community.

Words near speech communities in the dictionary

  1. speech acts
  2. speech balloon
  3. speech balloons
  4. speech bubble
  5. speech bubbles
  6. speech communities
  7. speech community
  8. speech day
  9. speech days
  10. speech disfluencies
  11. speech disfluency

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speech communities (page history and authors); speech community (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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