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MAIDEN SPEECH

Definition: MAIDEN SPEECH

MAIDEN SPEECH

1. The first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: MAIDEN SPEECH

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Familiar Quotations: MAIDEN SPEECH

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Disraeli	Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: MAIDEN SPEECH

Language		Translations for "MAIDEN SPEECH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		premier discours d'un député. (various references)

German		antrittsrede (inaugural, inaugural address, inaugural speech). (various references)

Hungarian		szûzbeszéd. (various references)

Pig Latin		aidenmay eechspay

Portuguese		o primeiro discurso. (various references)

Romanian		discurs de debut. (various references)

Spanish		primer discurso. (various references)

Swedish		jungfrutal. (various references)

Turkish		milletvekilinin ilk konuşması. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: MAIDEN SPEECH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-h-i-m-n-p-s"
	-2 letters: headpieces, impedances.
	-3 letters: camphenes, camphines, cheapened, headpiece, impeached, impeaches, impedance, pandemics.
	-4 letters: camphene, camphine, cepheids, cheapens, cheapies, deanship, echidnae, echidnas, encamped, encashed, enchased, endemics, enmeshed, epicenes, headpins, headsmen, hempseed, inmeshed, machined, machines, midspace, painches, pandemic, pemicans, pinheads, sapience, seapiece, sheepman, sheepmen, spacemen, specimen.
	-5 letters: achenes, amnesic, aniseed, aphides, candies, cepheid, chained, chaines, chamise, champed.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Bibliography

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