Conversation

/ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/ · noun

Meaning

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking..

Definitions by Sense

1. Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
2. (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
3. (computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
4. (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
5. (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
6. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
7. (obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
8. (nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).

Example Sentences

I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.

You need to improve conversation in foreign languages.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

M. Nioche pressed his finger-tips together and slowly raised his shoulders. “A little conversation!” / “Conversation—that’s it!” murmured Mademoiselle Noémie, who had caught the word. “The conversation of the best society.” / “Our French conversation is famous, you know,” M. Nioche ventured to continue.

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me

Yt chaunſed thatt a whole yere they had their converſacion with the congregacion there / and taught moche people in ſomoche thatt the diſciples off Antioche wer the fyrſt that wer called Chriſten.

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• conversations
• conversationing
• conversationed

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