conversation

[Con`ver*sa·tion]

A conversation occurs when people talk to each other, like a conversation with your friend about school or professional basketball.

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General course of conduct; behavior.

Noun
the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

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.

Conversation

Con`ver*sa"tion , n. [OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life.] 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." Dryden.

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. Colloqual 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. Syn. -- Intercourse; communion; commerce; familiarity; discourse; dialogue; colloque; 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.

Conversational

Con`ver*sa"tion*al , a. Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.

General course of conduct; behavior.

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Usage Examples

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

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Other Usage Examples

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.