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conversation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˌkʰɔɱ.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩] (Australia)
  • [ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩] (Canada, dialectal) of the US
  • /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
  • /ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
  • [ˌkʰɑɱ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃn̩] (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
  • /ˌkɔn.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩/ (Australia)
  • (California) audio
  • [ˌkʰɔ̟ɱ.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩] (New-Zealand)
  • [ˌkɔ̟n.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”). Displaced native Old English wordlaþu. Doublet of conversazione. Morphologically converse + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
    • All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    • You need to improve conversation in foreign languages.
    • M. Nioche pressed his finger-tips together and slowly raised his shoulders. “A little conversation!” / “Conversation—that’s it!” murmured Mademoiselle Noémie, who had caught the word. “The conversation of the best society.” / “Our French conversation is famous, you know,” M. Nioche ventured to continue. 1876 June, Henry James, Jr., “The American”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXVII, number CCXXIV, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, chapter I, page 655, columns 1–2:
    • That's my contribution to the health care conversation.
    • A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me 1968, Mac Davis, Billy Strange, “A Little Less Conversation”, performed by Elvis Presley:
    • The interview is two straight hours in conversation with the senator.
    • When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
    • I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it. 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:
  2. (uncountable) Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. ▸ Dialogue or interaction regarding a topic.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
    • Yt chaunſed thatt a whole yere they had their converſacion with the congregacion there / and taught moche people in ſomoche thatt the diſciples off Antioche wer the fyrſt that wer called Chriſten. 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xj:[26], folios clxxi, recto – clxxi, verso:
  6. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
    • I have desired him to inquire after Lovelace's life and conversation in town. 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
    • There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation, and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
    • Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 13:5:
  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
    • Our travellers had happened to take up their residence at a house of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their way to Bath. The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. Indeed, so foul and contagious are all such proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or of a house of ill repute, to all those where they are suffered to be carried on.
    • Ariadne[…]quitted her Lover Theseus, for the tumultuous Conversation of Bacchus. 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:
    • criminal conversation
  8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
    • So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world. 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
  9. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A kind of confectionery lozenge bearing a message on its surface.

Forms

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Deriveds

conversation analysis · topic of conversation · midconversation · conversationism · conversation-stopper · conversation piece · conversationize · metaconversation · nonversation · convo · textversation · conversationist · teleconversation · conversationable · criminal conversation · subconversation · conversation pit · conversational · conversationless · nonconversation · make conversation · conversation lozenge · protoconversation · cyberconversation · conversation set · conversation stopper · conversation heart

Relateds

conversant · converse

Synonyms

table talk · horizontal mambo · chinwag · pareunia · swiving · connection · lay · humpa humpa · coupling · familiarity · the beast with two backs · sexual relation · plow · jiggy-jiggy · screwing · intimate relations · visit · discussion · hump · physical love · the birds and the bees · screw · copulation · horizontal refreshments · roll in the hay · trim · skin · rumpo · legover · hanky-panky · horizontal dancing · hot beef injection · fooling around · commerce · conversation · banter · lustmaking · interlocution · carnal knowledge · dialogue · chat · sexual intercourse · Ugandan discussions · intercourse · seeing-to · horizontal slam dance · penetration · aphrodisia · intromission · rumpy-pumpy · monkey business · poontang · visit · mating · chinwag · jig-jig · coition · discussion · cuntfuck · dialogue · understanding · sexual congress · tang · chesterfield rugby · bang · interlocution · bonking · plough · nookie · banter · ass · lovemaking · poon · barney-mugging · powwow · shag · beef injection · relations · jiggery-pokery · old hat · how's your father · intimacy · playing around · punani · table talk · intercourse · sexy time · Netflix and chill · sexy times · consummation · action · horizontal hula · pussy · funny business · sex · horizontal jogging · pipe · meat injection · conjunction · boom-boom · chat · coitus · union · ride · sexual union · fooling about · commixtion · intercourse · fucky-fucky · mounting · snu snu · congress · Ugandan affairs · joining · powwow · making whoopee · fucking · love · frig · root

Translations (275)

tr sohbet (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps مکالمه (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk розмо́ва (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · pt conversa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cy sgwrs (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fr conversation (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · yue 談話 /谈话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · grc διάλογος (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fo prát (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · el συνδιάλεξη (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · csb rozgòwôr (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cv калаҫу (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ko 이야기 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · crh qonuşma (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ja カンバセーション (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg гуфтугӯ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bho बतकही (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira گُفْتْگویْ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · vo spikot (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lg emboozi (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uz soʻz (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ce къамел (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kn ಸಂಭಾಷಣೆ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mn үг (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · el συνδιάλλαξη (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur گُفْتگُو (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ca conversa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sh konverzácija (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · la sermō (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · yue 對話 /对话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk бала́чка (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tr konuşma (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fo samrøða (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nb konversasjon (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · eo interparolo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · km សន្ទនា (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mr संभाषण (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · yi שמועס (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tt сөйләшү (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ckb بارودۆخ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · be размо́ва (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ko 얘기 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur مُحادَثَہ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bg разгова́ряне (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sw mazungumzo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lad charla (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uz mukolama (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ka საუბარი (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sq llafosje (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kw keskows (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · he שִׂיחָה (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira مُذاکِرِه (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · udm вераськон (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ko 대화 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hi संवाद (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sh ра̏згово̄р (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ar مُحَادَثَة (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ka ლაპარაკი (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kmr behs (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sk rozhovor (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps صحبت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · pl rozmowa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur مُذاکَرَہ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · da samtale (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kw keskowsow (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lo ການສົນທະນາ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ar مُذَاكَرَة (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sv samtal (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ug سۆزلىشىش (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ms perbualan (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nl gesprek (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nrf convèrsâtion (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · yue 會話 /会话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bg бесе́да (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ar حِوَار (expression and exchange of individual ideas through 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(expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kmr suhbet (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · dng тан хуа (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ota محبت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ja 対話 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kk әңгімелесу (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cy confersasiwn (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · el συζήτηση (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg муҳовара (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · gu વાતચીત (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tk gürrüňdeşlik (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk бе́сіда (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nb samtale (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bo བཀའ་མོལ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps وراشه (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mn хэлэлцүүлэг (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uz suhbat (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tr muhabbet (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bua хөөрөөн (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lad lakirdi (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · it dialogo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira گُفْتِگو (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira بَحْث (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · gl conversa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · az qonuşma (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cs konverzace (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · pl konwersacja (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ast conversación (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fi keskustelu (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · yo ìfọ̀rọ̀wérò (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps ګړهار (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sh конверза́ција (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ro convorbire (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ta உரையாடல் (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira مُحاوِرِه (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ug دىئالوگ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hy զրույց (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ba әңгәмә (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · az danışıq (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · it discorso (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · crh musaabe (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ha batu (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · es platicada (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · crh subet (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg музокира (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cmn 會話 /会话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · et vestlus (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk розгово́р (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sk konverzácia (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · gd agallamh (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mi reoreo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bho 𑂥𑂰𑂞𑂍𑂯𑂲 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk гові́рка (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · la colloquium (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kk сөйлесім (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tr diyalog (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cs rozhovor (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uz gaplashish (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ja(expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira تَکَلُّم (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg такаллум (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira صُحْبَت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hi गुफ़्तगू (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ug سۆھبەت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg сӯхбат (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira مُحادِثِه (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sh rȁzgovōr (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uz muzokara (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ja 談話 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ota لقردی (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cmn 對話 /对话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps خبرې (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur بات چِیت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ota صحبت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · gd còmhradh (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · dlm conversatiaun (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · rue конверза́ція (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tk söhbetdeşlik (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lad kolokyo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · oc conversacion (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ar مُحَاوَرَة (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nan-hbl 會話 /会话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hy երկխոսություն (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mn яриа (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bn সংলাপ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tl pag-uusap (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bo སྐད་ཆ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nan-hbl 對話 /对话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps سکالو (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lv saruna (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sq bisedë (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sl pogȏvor (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · rue розговор (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tpi toktok (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ar مُكَالَمَة (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fy petear (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur مُحاوَرَہ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · it conversazione (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ro conversație (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur گُفْتَگُو (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ota محاوره (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ru бесе́да (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ia conversation (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bg общу́ване (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mk конверзација (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cy ymddiddan (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · is samtal (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ga comhrá (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk конверза́ція (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bg ра́зговор (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mag 𑂏𑂪𑂥𑂰𑂞 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kk әңгіме (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · es coloquio (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · af gesprek (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sv konversation (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mn ярилцлага (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hi बातचीत (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · om haasaa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hu beszélgetés (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · eu elkarrizketa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hy խոսակցություն (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · my အပြော (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps محاوره (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tk söhbet (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ru разгово́р (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uz gap (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ms percakapan (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ja 会話 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · te సంభాషణ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · be гу́тарка (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps بيور (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur بَحْث (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps ګړ و بړ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sah кэпсэтии (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · rsk конверзация (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · id percakapan (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · el κουβέντα (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bua хөөрэлдөөн (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · az söhbət (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mr संवाद (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ca conversació (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira مُکالِمِه (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ko 회화 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps خبرې اترې (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · de Gespräch (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nn samtale (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kmr diyalog (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg гуфтугуй (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · vi (cuộc) đối thoại (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · yi געשפּרעך (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · cmn 談話 /谈话 (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · pt conversação (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira گُفْتُگو (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps لام کلام (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg муҳодаса (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lt pokalbis (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ang mæþel (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · de Konversation (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · mk разговор (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · sa संवाद (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ps تکلم (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · th การสนทนา (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg муколама (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur مُکالَمَہ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · fa-ira گُفْتُگویْ (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · eo konversacio (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · lb Gespréich (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · el συνομιλία (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · hu társalgás (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · nl conversatie (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · kmr guftûgo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur تَکَلُّم (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bg диало́г (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · se ságastallan (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · de Unterhaltung (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ml സംഭാഷണം (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ur صُحْبَت (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · uk гу́тірка (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tr muhavere (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tt әңгәмә (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ug پاراڭلىشىش (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tg гуфтугу (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ky сүйлөшүү (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tk gürrüň (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · tl pagsasalitaan (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · rsk розгварка (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · ar تَكَلُّم (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · es conversa (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · bni lisolo (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) · es conversación (expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people)

conversation en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˌkʰɔɱ.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩] (Australia)
  • [ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩] (Canada, dialectal) of the US
  • /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
  • /ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
  • [ˌkʰɑɱ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃn̩] (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
  • /ˌkɔn.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩/ (Australia)
  • (California) audio
  • [ˌkʰɔ̟ɱ.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩] (New-Zealand)
  • [ˌkɔ̟n.vəˈsæɪ.ʃn̩] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”). Displaced native Old English wordlaþu. Doublet of conversazione. Morphologically converse + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard) To engage in conversation (with).
    • ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal... 1989, Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia:
    • After all this conversationing, Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance. 2002, Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays:
    • Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values... 1983, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review:

Forms

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conversationing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
conversations Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
conversationed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
conversationed Tense=Past lexicographic