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noun Linguistics.
the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place.
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Origin of speech community
First recorded in 1930–35
Words nearby speech community
speech, speech act, speech bulb, speech center, speech clinic, speech community, speech correction, speech day, speech form, speech from the throne, speechify
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British Dictionary definitions for speech community
speech community
noun
a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect
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