public speaking

What does public speaking mean?

public speaking means "delivering an address to a public audience".

What is another word for public speaking?

Close synonyms include speechmaking, speaking, oral presentation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public speaking a common word?

public speaking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for public speaking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.