Definizione monolingua

conversation

conversation (third-person singular simple present conversations, present participle conversationing, simple past and past participle conversationed)

1. (nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
   • 1983, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review

     Gone now are the ""high-minded"" style, the ""adapted from literature"" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...

   • 1989, Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia

     ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...

   • 2002, Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays

     After all this conversationing, Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.

conversation (plural conversations)

1. (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others. [14th-18th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XI:

     Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.

2. (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a persons way of life. [from 14th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 50:

     There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation , and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.

3. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 333:

     The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof.

4. Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. [from 16th c.]

   I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much hes getting paid.

5. (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

Definizione dizionario conversation

	conversazione
	talking
	L'uso del linguaggio informale per scambiarsi punti di vista, idee, informazioni, ecc.
	The use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
	A real-time communication session between two or more users. A session can involve IM, video, or audio.

	discorso
	talking

	dialogo
	talking

chiacchierata

collòquio

discussione

Altri significati:

(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse between people.

(fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

conversation (face-to-face)

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.

(nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).