Roget's Thesaurus

#588. Conversation

Nouns

conversation, interlocution; collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue. causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village. conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It.]; congress etc. (council) 696; powwow [U.S.]. hall of audience, durbar. palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words. gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer etc. (loquacity) 584; interlocutor etc. (spokesman) 582; conversationist, dialogist. the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].

Verbs

talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate etc. (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.]. discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.

Adjectives

conversing etc. v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable; discursive, discoursive; chatty etc. (sociable) 892; colloquial.

Phrases

with thee conversing I forget all time [Paradise Lost].