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Someone skilled at conversation
Answer for the clue "Someone skilled at conversation ", 17 letters:
conversationalist
Word definitions for conversationalist in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conversationalist \Con`ver*sa"tion*al*ist\, n. A conversationist.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who participates in a conversation. 2 A person skilled in conversation, especially one who is not expert on the topic of conversation.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Steve's a talented conversationalist with a gift for listening. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Frank was a stimulating conversationalist with up-to-date views on current topics. ▪ Have your best conversationalists around to tea ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone skilled at conversation [syn: schmoozer ]
Usage examples of conversationalist.
Eight Guardswomen were standing outside the door to the apartments, and one of them, Yurith Azeri, was an excellent conversationalist, an educated woman though silent on her past.
Yurith Azeri, was an excellent conversationalist, an educated woman though silent on her past.
Wallace, like Denny Fouts, was more conversationalist than sensualist.
Holding court for the season at their Pisan palace, Their Serene Highnesses Cosimo II, Archduchess Maria Maddalena, and Grand Duchess Mother Madama Cristina filled the seats around their table three times a day with interesting conversationalists who could inform them on a variety of subjects.
The doctor, a tall fine man, polite, eloquent without being a conversationalist, a learned physician, a man of wit, a favourite pupil of Boerhaeve, without scientific jargon, or charlatanism, or self-sufficiency, enchanted me.
We should not even ignore those speculators on Reality who doubted whether a white horse was real because he was white, or because he was solid, nor the Conversationalists of the Six dynasties who, like the Zen philosophers, revelled in discussions concerning the Pure and the Abstract.
The burly security man had spoken with the refugee from time to time on many a long night, finding him to be one of the most gifted conversationalists Allan had ever encountered.
Clumps of conversationalists stood scattered here and there, with a high concentration of activity cent ring about the sideboard with its urns of chocolate and plates of biscuits.
Some people feel that they should just naturally be good listeners, good empathizers, good conversationalists, good lovers, etc.
My experience has been that poor conversationalists benefit most from learning empathy responding.
Because of mutual interests in extreme skiing, skydiving, hard-boiled detective fiction, competitive rodeo bronc-busting, ghosts and poltergeists, big-band music, wilderness-survival techniques, and the art of scrimshaw among many other things, the twins are fascinating conversationalists, as much fun to listen to as they are to look at.
But from what Harold had been able to get from numerous conversationalists from oversea he had deliberately sought out for just this purpose, folk in towns wherein there was much trade had seemed to suffer the ravages of the disease far and away more than had those scattered out in the countrysides.
He is a fascinating conversationalist, and it was a privilege to hob-nob with him.
Lord Roxton proved an interesting conversationalist, and gave me some tips on hunting tigers that I hope I will never need to use.