conversation

Roget category 588

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#588. Conversation

noun

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.].

verb

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.

adjective

conversing etc. v. — interlocutory — conversational, conversable^† — discursive, discoursive^† — chatty etc. (sociable) 892 — colloquial.

phrase

with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost].

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