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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, interlocutioncollocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourseoral communication, commercedialogue, duologue, trialogue.
causerie, chat, chitchatsmall talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talktattle, gossip, tittle-tattlebabble, babblementtripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit [Fr.]talk of the town, talk of the village.
conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparlertete-a-tetereception, conversazione [It]congress etc. (council) 696powwow [U.S.].
hall of audience, durbar.
palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words.
gossip, tattlerPaul Prytabbychatterer etc. (loquacity) 584interlocutor etc. (spokesman) 582conversationist, dialogist.
the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].

verb

talk together, converse, confabulatehold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversationput in a wordshine in conversationbandy wordsparleypalaverchat, gossip, tattle prate etc. (loquacity) 584powwow [U.S.].
discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce withhold converse, hold conference, hold intercoursetalk it overbe closeted withtalk with one in private, tete-a-tete.

adjective

conversing etc. v. — interlocutoryconversational, conversablediscursive, discoursivechatty etc. (sociable) 892colloquial.

phrase

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

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