viva-voce

1. 1.

   expressed orally

   “a viva-voce report”

   “the film had good word-of-mouth publicity”

   Synonymsword-of-mouth

   Similarspoken

Questions about viva-voce

What does viva-voce mean?

viva-voce means "expressed orally".

How many syllables are in viva-voce?

viva-voce has 3 syllables: vi-va--voce. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for viva-voce?

Close synonyms include word-of-mouth. 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 viva-voce a common word?

viva-voce 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.