conversation
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conversation/kɒnvəˈseɪʃn/
▶noun a spoken exchange of news and ideas between people.
– derivatives
conversational adjective,
conversationally adverb.
conversational adjective,
conversationally adverb.
'conversation' also found in these Oxford entries:
adda
- anaphora
- art
- badinage
- bail
- breaker
- butt
- buttonhole
- charade
- chat
- chatline
- chatterbot
- chatty
- chit-chat
- civility
- colloquial
- colloquium
- colloquy
- confab
- continuative
- conversationalist
- conversation piece
- converse
- crack
- criminal conversation
- crosstalk
- dialogue
- discourse
- eavesdrop
- edgeways
- exchange
- filler
- fireside chat
- flavour
- geisha
- goodbye
- gossip
- hang
- hare
- head-to-head
- heart-to-heart
- hello
- hold
- ice
- icebreaker
- informal
- interpolate
- interview
- involved
