conversation
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)conversations
- the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.Type of speech, speech communicationKinds talk, exchange, tete-a-tete, chat, crossfire, nothings, commerce, phatic speech, telephone conversation, rap +5 more
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Translations
Noun talk between people, dialogue
- Spanish
- conversación
- French
- conversation
- German
- Konversation
- Italian
- conversazione
- Portuguese
- conversação
- Turkish
- sohbet
- Russian
- разгово́р razgovór
- Arabic
- مُحَادَثَة muḥādaṯa
- Chinese
- 会话 huìhuà
- Japanese
- 会話 kaiwa
30 more languages
- Dutch
- conversatie
- Polish
- rozmowa
- Swedish
- samtal
- Greek
- συζήτηση syzítisi
- Korean
- 대화 daehwa
- Indonesian
- percakapan
- Hungarian
- beszélgetés
- Portuguese (PT)
- conversação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 會話 huìhuà
- Albanian
- bisedë
- Catalan
- conversació
- Czech
- rozhovor
- Danish
- samtale
- Esperanto
- konversacio
- Estonian
- vestlus
- Finnish
- keskustelu
- Georgian
- საუბარი saubari
- Hebrew
- שִׂיחָה sikhá
- Icelandic
- samtal
- Kurdish
- suhbet
- Latvian
- saruna
- Lithuanian
- pokalbis
- Norwegian
- samtale
- Romanian
- conversație
- Scottish Gaelic
- còmhradh
- Serbo-Croatian
- razgovor
- Slovak
- konverzácia
- Slovenian
- pogovor
- Welsh
- sgwrs
- Yiddish
- געשפּרעך geshprekh
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life.
1. General course of conduct; behavior. archaic
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.— Philip. i. 27.
2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. “Conversation with the best company.” John Dryden
I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
3. Commerce; intercourse; traffic. obsolete
All traffic and mutual conversation.— Richard Hakluyt
4. Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
5. Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
Synonyms: Intercourse; communion; commerce; familiarity; discourse; dialogue; colloquy; talk; chat. — Conversation, Talk. There is a looser sense of these words, in which they are synonymous; there is a stricter sense, in which they differ. Talk is usually broken, familiar, and versatile. Conversation is more continuous and sustained, and turns ordinarily upon topics or higher interest. Children talk to their parents or to their companions; men converse together in mixed assemblies. Dr. Johnson once remarked, of an evening spent in society, that there had been a great deal of talk, but no conversation.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54