The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.
The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.
Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.
A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
The sense used to perceive sound.
The act by which something is heard.
A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.