What does conversationist mean?
Conversationist means Someone skilled in the art of conversation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Someone skilled in the art of conversation..
Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.
BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote "Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity," "Lectures on the Atomic Theory," and two volumes of "Essays, Scientific and Literary" (1817-1856).
[A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer.
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Conversationist means Someone skilled in the art of conversation..
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Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.
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