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Main Entry: conversation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dialogue, discourse
Synonyms: chat, colloquy, comment, communication, communion, conference, consultation, converse, debate, discussion, exchange, expression, gab*, gossip, hearing, intercourse, observation, palaver, parley, powwow*, questioning, remark, repartee, speech, talk, ventilation, visit, yak*, confab, confabulation, jive*, pillow talk, talkfest, tète-à-tète
Antonyms: quiet, silence, quietude
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Main Entry: conversation
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
chatty, colloquial, conversable, conversational, conversing, discoursive, discursive, interlocutory
Main Entry: chat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk, often short
Synonyms: babble, bull session, chatter, conversation, converse, gab*, gas*, gossip, hot air*, jabber*, palaver, prattle*, rap*, tête-à-tête, visit, yak*, heart-to-heart, rap session
Antonyms: quiet, silence
Main Entry: dialogue/dialog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk, exchange of ideas
Synonyms: chat, colloquy, communication, conference, conversation, converse, discourse, discussion, parlance, parley, powwow, repartee, script, small talk*, confab, confabulation, duologue, interlocution, lines, remarks, sides
Main Entry: discourse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dialogue; dissertation
Synonyms: address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, treatise, utterance, gabfest, tractate, verbalization
Antonyms: quiet, silence
Main Entry: discussion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk with another
Synonyms: altercation, analysis, argument, canvass, colloquy, conference, consideration, consultation, contention, controversy, conversation, debate, deliberation, dialogue, discourse, disputation, dispute, dissertation, examination, exchange, huddle, interview, meet, meeting, powwow*, quarrel, review, scrutiny, symposium, ventilation, argumentation, confabulation, excursus, groupthink, wrangling
Antonyms: quiet, silence
Main Entry: interview
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: questioning and evaluation
Synonyms: account, audience, call, call back, cattle call, communication, conference, consultation, conversation, dialogue, examination, hearing, meeting, oral, parley, press conference, record, statement, talk
Main Entry: language
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: system of words for communication
Synonyms: accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocabulary, voice, word, wording, brogue, doublespeak, lingua franca, verbalization, vocalization
Notes: don't use 'language' when you mean 'writing system' - Chinese is a spoken language with no characters; the Chinese writing system uses thousands of characters
Main Entry: small talk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chit-chat
Synonyms: babble, blab*, blather, chat, chatter, chitchat*, chitchat, conversation, gab, gossip, jabber*, pleasantry, prattle, table talk, beauty-parlor chitchat, casual conversation, idle chat, idle chatter, idle talk, light talk, polite remark, rumors, trivial conversation, yakking
Main Entry: chitchat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: informal talk
Synonyms: conversation, gossip, prattle, small talk, talk
Main Entry: dialogue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk
Synonyms: chat, colloquy, communication, conference, conversation, converse, discourse, discussion, exchange, flap, parlance, parley, powwow, rap, repartee, script, small talk, confab, confabulation, dialog, duologue, interlocution, lines, rap session, remarks, sides
Antonyms: monologue, soliloquy
Main Entry: tête-à-tête
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: private conversation
Synonyms: chat, colloquy, conversation, dialogue, discussion, parley, talk
Main Entry: communication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: giving, exchanging information, ideas
Synonyms: advice, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, dissemination, elucidation, expression, intelligence, interchange, intercourse, link, mention, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, transmission, utterance, writing, advisement, announcing, disclosing, intercommunication, making known, notifying, translating
Antonyms: concealment, cover, quiet, suppression, withholding
Main Entry: conference
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: convention, colloquium
Synonyms: appointment, argument, chat, colloquy, conferring, congress, consultation, conversation, convocation, deliberation, discussion, forum, huddle, interchange, interview, meeting, palaver, parley, powwow*, round table, seminar, symposium, talk, ventilation, confabulation, gabfest, groupthink, round robin, think-in
Main Entry: gossip
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk about others; rumor
Synonyms: account, babble, blather, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat*, chronicle, conversation, cry, defamation, grapevine*, hearsay, injury, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt*, slander, small talk*, story, tale, talk, whispering campaign*, wire*, back-fence talk, blether, clothesline, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, idle talk, malicious talk
Antonyms: fact
Main Entry: speech
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk
Synonyms: accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discussion, double talk, elocution, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue, palaver, parlance, prattle, pronunciation, prose, speaking, spiel, tone, tongue, utterance, vernacular, voice, doublespeak, enunciation, expressing, native tongue, oral communication, verbalization, vocal expression, vocalization, vocalizing, voicing
Antonyms: listening, quiet, silence
Main Entry: word
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: discussion
Synonyms: chat, chitchat*, colloquy, consultation, conversation, discussion, tête-è-tête, talk, confab, confabulation
Antonyms: silence
Main Entry: audience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hearing
Synonyms: audition, conference, consideration, consultation, conversation, discussion, interview, meeting, reception
Main Entry: communication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: information transmitted
Synonyms: account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, information, intelligence, language, message, missive, news, note, précis, prophecy, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work, communiqué, hot story, ideas, info, inside story, lowdown, pipeline, poop
Main Entry: report
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gossip, talk
Synonyms: advice, buzz*, canard, chat, chatter, chitchat, comment, conversation, cry*, dirt*, grapevine*, hash*, hearsay, intelligence, murmur, news, rumble*, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt*, small talk*, speech, tattle, tidings, whispering, word*, blow by blow, earful, prating, the latest
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