Discourse

['dɪskɔːs;-'kɔːs] or ['dɪskɔrs]

Definition

(noun.) extended verbal expression in speech or writing.

(verb.) to consider or examine in speech or writing; 'The author talks about the different aspects of this question'; 'The class discussed Dante's `Inferno''.

Typist: Sanford--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.

(n.) Conversation; talk.

(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

(n.) Dealing; transaction.

(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.

(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.

(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.

(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.

(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.

(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.

Editor: Pasquale

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. [Rare.] Reason, reasoning faculty.[2]. Dissertation, treatise, disquisition, homily, sermon.[3]. Conversation, talk, oral communication, verbal intercourse.

v. n. [1]. Speak, expatiate, hold forth, deliver a discourse.[2]. Talk, converse, parley, confer, advise, hold a conversation, hold a parley or conference, talk together.

v. a. Utter, emit, give forth.

Edited by Hattie

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See CONVERSATION]

Editor: Sweeney

Definition

n. speech or language generally: conversation: the reasoning faculty: a treatise: a sermon.—v.i. to talk or converse: to reason: to treat formally.—v.t. to utter or give forth.—n. Discours′er (Shak.).—adj. Discours′ive.

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