Conversation
[kɒnvə'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑnvɚ'seʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc..
Editor: Whitney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) General course of conduct; behavior.
(n.) Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
(n.) Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
(n.) Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
(n.) Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
Checked by Francis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Converse, talk, colloquy, parley, conference, dialogue, chat, CONFABULATION, familiar discourse.
Typed by Jeanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Converse, dialogue, talk, conference, colloquy, confabulation, chat
ANT:Speech, oration, harangue, babel, jabber, babble, prattle, dribble, mutter,soliloquy, apostrophe, monologue, interpellation, interruption, silence,taciturnity
Editor: Spence
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Editor: Stanton
Examples
- Let us enjoy five minutes of instructive conversation with her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His satisfaction was not removed by Rebecca's own statements, behaviour, and conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I should have walked on to the church if the conversation of two men and a woman on the outskirts of the crowd had not caught my ear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was very well they did--to judge from the fragments of conversation which Margaret overheard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You remember, miss, that we passed some conversation on a certain man this morning? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have been very happy here,' and Margaret closed her eyes by way of stopping the conversation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The conversation was here interrupted by a moan from the sick woman. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To keep up the conversation, I asked Mr. Vholes if he would like to live altogether in the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I should have some fashionable conversation, here, then. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The succeeding half-hour's conversation was not of a nature to calm his perturbed spirit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You have reminded me, Sir, that this conversation was private--private and confidential, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She had not far retraced her steps when sounds in front of her betokened the approach of persons in conversation along the same path. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Fanny, cried Tom Bertram, from the other table, where the conference was eagerly carrying on, and the conversation incessant, we want your services. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nor were the conversations of these gentlemen the only sounds that broke upon the ear. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have passed many an afternoon very agreeably in these conversations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- By personal experience, by intimate conversations, and by looking about, I think I am pretty well aware of what the influence of business upon journalism amounts to. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was the sight of Little Marlow, and my conversations with Martha, that led me to the plan I formed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Their conversations, however, were not always on subjects so high as history or morals. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Had conversations between them been overheard, people would have said, How cold they are to each other! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At times, she took no heed of what was passing before her, or no part in conversations where once, she would have been the loudest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- One or two of the men with him recorded his conversations and set down their impressions of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this manner I had several conversations with him. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- When we were settled at home again, Ada and I had many conversations with my guardian of which Richard was the theme. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The conversations with Edison that elicited these stories brought out some details as to peril that attends experimentation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Our conversations are not always confined to his own history and misfortunes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I had never met Mr. Stanton up to that time, though we had held frequent conversations over the wires the year before, when I was in Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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