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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | conversation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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