Chat

Quick meaning: Chat is a verb meaning To be engaged in informal conversation.

Meaning

To be engaged in informal conversation.

More Meanings

1. To talk more than a few words.
2. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
3. (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
4. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
5. (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
6. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
7. (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

Example Sentences

Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.

Do you want to chat online later?

They chatted politics for a while.

She chatted with her friend in the cafe.

Word Forms

• chats
• chatting
• chatted
• chatt

Synonyms for chat

Depending on context, synonyms include visit, confab, discourse, parley, common, confabulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include confabulate, confab, confabulation, chitchat, natter, gossip.

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