From en.wiktionary.org:
[convèrsâtion]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en] and its etymon, [en], accusative singular of [la], from
[la]. [en]. Morphologically [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. [from 16th c.]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1699 | author= 吴语: Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | title=Heads designed for an essay on conversations | url=http://essays.quotidiana.org/temple/heads_for_conversation/
|passage=Study gives strength to the mind; CONVERSATION, grace: the first apt
to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the
statue, the other polishes it.}}
1. * [volume=XXXVII]
2. * [chapter=5]
3. * [chapter=12]
4. * [en]
5. [en] The back-and-forth play of the blade s in a bout .
6. [en] The protocol -based interaction between system s processing a transaction . [from 20th c.]
7. [en] Interaction ; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others. [14th]
8. * [format=full]
9. [en] Behaviour , the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life . [from 14th c.]
10. * [Hebrews]
11. * [edition=2nd]
12. * [letter=27]
13. [en] Sexual intercourse . [16th]
14. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1723 | author=Charles Walker | title=Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury
|passage=[Ariadne][...]quitted her Lover [Theseus], for the tumultuous
CONVERSATION of [Bacchus].}}
1. * [RQ:Fielding Tom Jones] Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
2. *: [en]
3. [en] Engagement with a specific subject , idea, field of study etc. [16th–18th c.]
4. * 1570 , [John Dee] , in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, _Elements of Geometry_ , Preface:
5. *: So grosse is our CONUERSATION , and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world.
**** Usage notes
- To _make_ conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence.
- To _have_ a conversation, and to _hold_ a conversation, both mean to converse .
- See :Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|conversationable|conversationism|conversationist|conversationize|conversationless|convo|cyberconversation|metaconversation|midconversation|nonconversation|nonversation|protoconversation|subconversation|teleconversation|textversation
|conversational|conversation piece| criminal conversation|make
conversation|conversation heart|conversation lozenge|conversation pit|topic of
conversation|conversation set|conversation
stopper|conversation-stopper|conversation analysis}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other
people]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [esp. on the phone] [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
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- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho] , [bho]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
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- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue] , [rue]
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- Chinese:
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- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
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- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
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- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
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- Hebrew: [he]
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- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
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- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad] , [lad] , [lad]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
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- Luganda: [lg]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
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- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk] , [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
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- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [colloquial]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
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- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] [dialectal, dated] , [uk] [dialectal] , [uk] [dialectal] , [uk] [dialectal]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug] , [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz] [literary] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To engage in conversation (with).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1983 | author=James Frederick Mason; Hélène Joséphine Harvitt | title=The French review
|passage=Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature"
feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract CONVERSATIONING about ideas,
values...}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en]
**** Hypernyms
- [fr]
**** Hyponyms
- [fr]
- [fr]
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
**** Descendants
- [ro]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr]