Colloquy

Quick meaning: Colloquy is a noun meaning A conversation or dialogue.

Meaning

A conversation or dialogue.

More Meanings

1. (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
2. A written discourse.
3. (intransitive, rare) To converse.
4. (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
5. (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
6. (obsolete) A formal conference.

Example Sentences

At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.

House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.

And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.

The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals.

Word Forms

• colloquies
• colloquying
• colloquied

Antonyms for colloquy

Common opposites include soliloquy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colloque, colloquium, forum, event, conference, symposium.

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