Dialogue
['daɪəlɒg] or ['daɪəlɑɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; 'he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek'.
(noun.) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction.
(noun.) a conversation between two persons.
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Definition
(n.) A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
(n.) A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
(v. i.) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(v. t.) To express as in dialogue.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Colloquy, conference.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tete-a-tete, conversation, discourse, colloquy, confabulation
ANT:Monologue, oration, soliloquy, apostrophe
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Definition
n. conversation between two or more persons esp. of a formal or imaginary nature.—v.i. and v.t. (Shak.) to put into dialogue form.—adjs. Dialog′ic Dialogist′ic -al (-loj-) in the form of a dialogue.—v.i. Dial′ogise (′oj-) to discourse in dialogue.—n. Dial′ogist (′oj-) a speaker in or writer of a dialogue.
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Examples
- Another silence succeeded this short dialogue: which was again broken by the stranger. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I felt apprehensive that I was personally interested in this dialogue, and sought Mr. Murdstone's eye as it lighted on mine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Two persons standing there might interchange a dialogue, and, so it were neither long nor loud, none be the wiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We should not interpret a Platonic dialogue any more than a poem or a parable in too literal or matter-of-fact a style. Plato. The Republic.
- The part thus played in dialogue by Mr. Horrock was terribly effective. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Zara replied and, after a musical dialogue, consented to fly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Meanwhile, the following dialogue took place between the two leaders of the banditti. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- While this strange dialogue continued, I perceived the crowd rapidly increase. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He may read it in his own fashion, remarked Caroline, now joining in the dialogue for the first time. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To this dialogue Riderhood had attended in silence, and he now obsequiously bespake the Captain. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The entrance of the Judge, and a consequent great stir and settling down in the court, stopped the dialogue. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mr. Guppy has been biting his thumb-nail during this dialogue, generally changing the thumb when he has changed the cross leg. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Through the ensuing dialogue, those two, no matter who spoke, or whom was addressed, looked at each other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I once, indeed, overheard part of a dialogue between Leah and one of the charwomen, of which Grace formed the subject. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There is a famous question discussed in one of the earlier Dialogues of Plato (Protagoras; AriSt. Nic. Plato. The Republic.
- In 1632 he published what he called The Dialogues of Galileo Galilei. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He termed her, in confidential dialogues with Mrs. Sympson, a truly superior person; peculiar, but very clever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Idea of good is so called only in the Republic, but there are traces of it in other dialogues of Plato. Plato. The Republic.
- The dialogues of Plato are themselves examples of the nature and method of dialectic. Plato. The Republic.
- In many of the dialogues the voice is the voice of Socrates, but the thought is the thought of Plato. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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