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/kˌɑnvərsˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Conversation n.

1.

General course of conduct; behavior. (Archaic) "Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel."

2.

Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. "Conversation with the best company." "I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business."

3.

Commerce; intercourse; traffic. (Obs.) "All traffic and mutual conversation."

4.

Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. "The influence exercised by his (Johnson's) conversation was altogether without a parallel."

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.

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Etymology of 'Conversation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conversation" Quotes from Famous Books

... girls couldn't have heard the noise last night," ventured Toady, when they had left the house far enough behind to make it impossible for anyone to overhear their conversation. ...

— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown

... "Earl Thomas Seymour, you have often begged us for a private conversation; we now grant it to you. Speak, then! what matter of importance have you to ...

— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach

... happens that whenever opportunities and invitations have been—have been urged, other duties intervened, but though, on that account never having been actually present, I am familiar, of course, through conversation with great artists and memoirs and—and other sources of literature—with the procedure and etiquette of rehearsal. But others among us, no doubt through lack of leisure, are perhaps less so than—than this. What I wished to suggest was that, ...

— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington

... lodgings, and remained until the close of the day. We have no account of what took place during those happy hours. It would be interesting to know what Jesus said to his visitors, but not a word of the conversation has been preserved. We may be sure, however, that the visit made a deep ...

— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... Doctor Green, his medical attendant. This habit of talking about his sickness became as chronic as the sickness itself. He seemed to know little of any other subject than the real and imaginary complaints of his body; at least, he talked about little else. If in conversation he happened to commence in the spirit, he soon entered into the flesh, and there he ended. If by an effort of his hearer his attention was diverted from himself, it would with all the quickness of an elastic bow rebound to ...

— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate

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