Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conversant \Con"ver*sant\, a. [L. conversans, p. pr. of conversari: cf. F. conversant.]
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Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
I have been conversant with the first persons of the age.
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Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.
Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy.
--Dryden.he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all.
--Pope.Conversant only with the ways of men.
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Concerned; occupied.
Education . . . is conversant about children.
--W. Wotton.
Conversant \Con*vers"ant\, n. One who converses with another; a convenser. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French conversant, present participle of converser (see converse (v.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction 2 familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed 3 (context obsolete English) Concerned; occupied. n. One who converses with another.
WordNet
adj. (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; "conversant with business trends"; "familiar with the complex machinery"; "he was familiar with those roads" [syn: conversant(p), familiar(p)]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "conversant".
So miserable was my life rendered by these continued attacks that I was often obliged to lock myself up for days together, never seeing any person save my man Samuel Scrape, who was a very honest blunt fellow, a staunch Cameronian, but withal very little conversant in religious matters.
He also inserted many other processes as the result of considerable research and seems to have been thoroughly conversant with the chemistry of inks, advocating especially the value and employment of a tanno-gallate of iron ink for record purposes.
As to poor Jones, the only relief to his distempered mind was an unwelcome piece of news, which, as it opens a scene of different nature from those in which the reader hath lately been conversant, will be communicated to him in the next chapter.
You do not know, perhaps, that I have heard of your infatuation for Valla Dia or that I am fully conversant with the purpose of your visit to Phundahl.
Yet that she was the same girl who, a few days after my return from the East, had shown herself conversant with the plans of the murderous fanatics was beyond doubt.
Regarding railways in America generally, as to the relative safety of which, when compared with our own, we have not in England a high opinion, I must say that I never saw any accident or in any way became conversant with one.
Exceptionally conversant w/r/t avant-garde celluloid and avant and après-garde digital cartridges, antíconfluential cinema,61 Brutalism, Found Drama, etc.
Atropos was not conversant with the technical material, but Niobe and Clotho thought the answers at her, so she could tutor the girl competently.
Robin proved not only completely conversant with the complexities of the big event but efficient in checking minor details that might provide situations for accidents to happen.
The problem goes unresolved, even as the conversants consider the "act of conscious identification with living things" and "non-interchangeability: as possible bases for naming.
Mankind, along with the rest of the universe, was unaware of the beings, the beings were unaware of mankind, and the conversants were strangers to one another.
An ancestor of mine who traveled central and southern Europe in the mid 1800's had a number of useful conversations with academics and clerics in Latin since he did not speak either Italian or German and some of his conversants could not speak French (his other modern language).
Free on the net, fully conversant with the security surrounding the police department's computers, the sim of her had given Peter a Christmas present, erasing the records of his fingerprints (marked as unidentified) at Sandra's housePeter's own precautions in that matter having been completely insufficientand deleting large passages of her own files pertaining to the Larsen and Churchill cases.
He needs loyal soldiers conversant in American language and custom.
Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers.