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conversation
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Word definitions for conversation in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a phone conversation ▪ Neither man denies the phone conversation took place. a rational conversation/discussion ▪ Let's all calm down and have a rational discussion. a subject of conversation ▪ She searched for a new ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Conversation is communication among people. Conversation ( s ) or The Conversation may also refer to: The Conversation , a 1974 psychological thriller film Conversation (magazine) , a UK poetry magazine The Conversation (painting) , a painting by Henri ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. (from 16th c.) vb. (context nonstandard ambitransitive English) To engage in conversation (with).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "living together, having dealings with others," also "manner of conducting oneself in the world;" from Old French conversation , from Latin conversationem (nominative conversatio ) "act of living with," noun of action from past participle stem ...
Usage examples of conversation.
CHAPTER XII THE SECOND OBLONG BOX When Cleggett returned to the ship he found Captain Abernethy in conversation with a young man of deprecating manner whom the Captain introduced as the Rev.
I remarked their English accents and listened vaguely to their conversation.
Indeed, it was rare that he spoke at all or ventured an opinion except in private conversation, which to Adams, who was almost incapable of staying out of an argument, was extremely difficult to comprehend.
In a conversation with Adams at a dinner, she recounted, he had remarked that in some cases it was the duty of a good citizen to sacrifice his all for the good of the country.
What appears to have pleased Adams no less was the discovery during his parting call at Versailles that his French had so improved he could manage an extended conversation and speak as rapidly as he pleased.
It was by his own choice that he dined often with Jones, spent hours in conversation with him and his officers, and as always, Adams was buoyed by talk.
But again Adams was telling the Foreign Minister what he already knew, since Adams had earlier expressed his views to Chaumont, who lost no time reporting the conversation to Vergennes.
In his diary afterward Adams recorded the essence of the conversation: He said that Lord Carmarthen was their Minister of Foreign Affairs, that I must first wait on him, and he would introduce me to his Majesty.
Snowbound in a tavern at Hartford, Adams fell into conversation with another traveler who happened not to recognize him.
A conversation among the dead felt unseemly, but Aras knew that Ade Bennett had seen many battlefields and had learned to handle the horror.
There is among the Adirondack visitors always a great deal of conversation about bears,--a general expression of the wish to see one in the woods, and much speculation as to how a person would act if he or she chanced to meet one.
The other four councilmen also appeared and clustered around Admi for what appeared to be an urgent conversation.
Kimmer, who likes to pepper her conversation with the occasional Afrocentric non sequitur.
Instead, I have included only those words required to translate all the Agro conversations which appear in this story.
Instead, Aguinaldo kept the conversation on the pleasures of the Snake and the joys of angling.