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dialogue
noun
1 dialogue
A conversation between two persons.
synonyms: dialog, duologue.
Roget 588:
conversation,
interlocution;
collocution†,
colloquy,
converse,
confabulation,
talk,
discourse,
verbal intercourse;
oral communication,
commerce;
dialogue,
duologue,
trialogue.
causerie,
chat,
chitchat;
small talk,
table talk,
teatable talk†,
town talk,
village talk,
idle talk;
tattle,
gossip,
tittle-tattle;
babble,
babblement†;
tripotage†,
cackle,
prittle-prattle†,
cancan,
on dit [Fr.];
talk of the town,
talk of the village.
conference,
parley,
interview,
audience,
pourparler;
tete-a-tete;
reception,
conversazione [It];
congress
etc.
(council)
696;
powwow [U.S.].
hall of audience,
durbar†.
palaver,
debate,
logomachy†,
war of words.
gossip,
tattler;
Paul Pry;
tabby;
chatterer
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
interlocutor
etc.
(spokesman)
582;
conversationist†,
dialogist†.
the feast of reason and the flow of soul"
[Pope];
mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].
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2 dialogue
The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction.
synonym: dialog.
Polish: dialog
3 dialogue
A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people:
— He has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek.
synonym: dialog.
Dutch: dialoogvenster, gesprek, dialoog
Polish: dialog
4 dialogue
A discussion intended to produce an agreement:
— They disagreed but kept an open dialogue.
synonyms: negotiation, talks.
Dutch: dialoog, bespreking, onderhandeling, ontmoeting, palaver, palavers, pourparlers
Polish: negocjacje, pertraktacje, rokowania
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