Sekirov Dictionary

conversation

UK /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/US /ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/

noun 9
verb 1
forms 3

noun9

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a time when people talk to each other and share their ideas or news
- I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.
- You need to improve conversation in foreign languages.
Dialogue or interaction regarding a topic.
The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
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(no longer used) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
- 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
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(euphemistic, no longer used) 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.
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(no longer used) 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
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(no longer used) 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
(no longer used) A kind of confectionery lozenge bearing a message on its surface.

verb1

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(nonstandard) To engage in conversation (with).
- Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values... — 1983

forms

conversationed · conversationing · conversations

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