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Conversation
CONVERSATION, n.
1. General course of manners; behavior; deportment; especially as it respects morals.
Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel. Phil 1.
Be ye holy in all manner of conversation. 1 Pet 1.
2. A keeping company; familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; commerce in social life. Knowledge of men and manners is best acquired by conversation with the best company.
3. Intimate and familiar acquaintance; as a conversation with books, or other object.
4. Familiar discourse; general intercourse of sentiments; chat; unrestrained talk; opposed to a formal conference.
What I mentioned in conversation was not a new thought.
[This is now the most general use of the word.]
conversation appears in definitions for these words:
Absent Affability Affable Amuse Assurance Bear Break Call Cant Careful Charm Chaste Chastity Chatty Cloister Coffee-house Colloquial Colloquy Communication Company Confabulation Confer Conversable Conversableness Conversation Converse Criminal Cross-purpose Cuckold Cuckold-maker Damsel Deipnosophist Desultory Dialogue Dialogue-writer Discontinuance Discourse Discoursive Discreet Dissolve Duplicity Egotist Encounter Engage Enjoy Enterparlance Entertain Entertainment Epistle Exemplify Familiar Familiarity Fornication Fornicator Free Glad Humor Immaculate Inaffability Incidental Incidentally Incommunicative Inconversable Insociable Intertalk Least Literary Loosely Maintain Masquerade Mean Mention Minute Musty Noise Order Ordinary Palaver Parlance Parle Parley Purpose Relax Remark Reserved Run Season Sedateness Session Sociable Sociableness Speak Stir Study Suavity Symposiac Table-talk Talk Talkativeness Talking Tenor Townsman Turn Unconversable Unguarded Unsociable Untaken Virtue
Absent Affability Affable Amuse Assurance Bear Break Call Cant Careful Charm Chaste Chastity Chatty Cloister Coffee-house Colloquial Colloquy Communication Company Confabulation Confer Conversable Conversableness Conversation Converse Criminal Cross-purpose Cuckold Cuckold-maker Damsel Deipnosophist Desultory Dialogue Dialogue-writer Discontinuance Discourse Discoursive Discreet Dissolve Duplicity Egotist Encounter Engage Enjoy Enterparlance Entertain Entertainment Epistle Exemplify Familiar Familiarity Fornication Fornicator Free Glad Humor Immaculate Inaffability Incidental Incidentally Incommunicative Inconversable Insociable Intertalk Least Literary Loosely Maintain Masquerade Mean Mention Minute Musty Noise Order Ordinary Palaver Parlance Parle Parley Purpose Relax Remark Reserved Run Season Sedateness Session Sociable Sociableness Speak Stir Study Suavity Symposiac Table-talk Talk Talkativeness Talking Tenor Townsman Turn Unconversable Unguarded Unsociable Untaken Virtue
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