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as a verb: - 1
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palaver
noun
1 palaver
Flattery intended to persuade.
synonyms: blandishment, cajolery.
Roget 696:
council,
committee,
subcommittee,
comitia [Lat.],
court,
chamber,
cabinet,
board,
bench,
staff.
senate,
senatus [Lat.],
parliament,
chamber of deputies,
directory,
reichsrath [G.],
rigsdag,
cortes [Sp.],
storthing†,
witenagemote†,
junta,
divan,
musnud†,
sanhedrim;
classis†;
Amphictyonic council†;
duma [Rus.],
house of representatives;
legislative assembly,
legislative council;
riksdag†,
volksraad [G.],
witan†,
caput†,
consistory,
chapter,
syndicate;
court of appeal
etc.
(tribunal)
966;
board of control,
board of works;
vestry;
county council,
local board.
audience chamber,
council chamber,
state chamber.
cabinet council,
privy council;
cockpit,
convocation,
synod,
congress,
convention,
diet,
states-general.
[formal gathering of members of a council: script]
assembly,
caucus,
conclave,
clique,
conventicle;
meeting,
sitting,
seance,
conference,
convention,
exhibition,
session,
palaver,
pourparler,
durbar†,
house;
quorum;
council fire [U.S.],
powwow [U.S.],
primary [U.S.].
meeting,
assemblage
etc.
72.
[person who is member of a council]
member;
senator;
member of parliament,
M. P.;
councilor,
representative of the people;
assemblyman,
congressman;
councilman,
councilwoman,
alderman,
freeholder.
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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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Roget 517:
meaninglessness,
unmeaningness
etc.
adj.†;
scrabble.
empty sound,
dead letter,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;"
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. "
nonsense,
utter nonsense,
gibberish;
jargon,
jabber,
mere words,
hocus-pocus,
fustian,
rant,
bombast,
balderdash,
palaver,
flummery,
verbiage,
babble,
baverdage,
baragouin†,
platitude,
niaiserie†;
inanity;
flap-doodle;
rigmarole,
rodomontade;
truism;
nugae canorae [Lat.];
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug;
poppy-cock [U.S.];
stuff,
stuff and nonsense;
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle;
absurdity
etc.
497;
vagueness
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal]
boilerplate,
clich??.
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Dutch: mooipraterij, pluimstrijkerij, ophemeling, hielenlikkerij, vleierij
2 palaver
Loud and confused and empty talk.
synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric.
Roget 582:
speech,
faculty of speech;
locution,
talk,
parlance,
verbal intercourse,
prolation†,
oral communication,
word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle;
effusion.
oration,
recitation,
delivery,
say,
speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade,
formal speech,
peroration;
speechifying;
soliloquy
etc.
589;
allocution
etc.
586;
conversation
etc.
588;
salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory;
elocution,
eloquence;
rhetoric,
declamation;
grandiloquence,
multiloquence†;
burst of eloquence;
facundity†;
flow of words,
command of words,
command of language;
copia verborum [Lat.];
power of speech,
gift of the gab;
usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker
etc.
v.;
spokesman;
prolocutor,
interlocutor;
mouthpiece,
Hermes;
orator,
oratrix†,
oratress†;
Demosthenes,
Cicero;
rhetorician;
stump orator,
platform orator;
speechmaker,
patterer†,
improvisatore†.
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Dutch: palaver
Polish: gadanina, gadulstwo
verb
1 palaver
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
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Roget 588:
talk together,
converse,
confabulate;
hold on a conversation,
carry on a conversation,
join in a conversation,
engage in a conversation;
put in a word;
shine in conversation;
bandy words;
parley;
palaver;
chat,
gossip,
tattle;
prate
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
powwow [U.S.].
discourse with,
confer with,
commune with,
commerce with;
hold converse,
hold conference,
hold intercourse;
talk it over;
be closeted with;
talk with one in private,
tete-a-tete.
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Roget 584:
be loquacious
etc.
adj.;
talk glibly,
pour forth,
patter;
prate,
palaver,
prose,
chatter,
prattle,
clack,
jabber,
jaw;
blather,
blatter†,
blether†;
rattle,
rattle on;
twaddle,
twattle;
babble,
gabble;
outtalk;
talk oneself out of breath,
talk oneself hoarse;
expatiate
etc.
(speak at length)
573;
gossip
etc.
(converse)
588;
din in the ears
etc.
(repeat)
104;
talk at random,
talk nonsense
etc.
497;
be hoarse with talking.
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Dutch: ratelen, fantaseren
2 palaver
Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering:
— He palavered her into going along.
synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle.
Dutch: vleien, verleiden, overhalen, lubben, meelokken, strikken
3 palaver
Have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds.
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