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1. Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons. 2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.

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  • COLLOQUY
    1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood. 2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • TETE-A-TETE
    1. Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons. 2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
  • CONVERSATIONIST
    One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
  • CONVERSATION
    conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
  • CONVERSATIONISM
    A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.
  • CONVERSATIONAL
    Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.
  • CONVERSATIONALIST
    A conversationist.
  • CONFABULATION
    Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.
  • CONVERSATIONED
    Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.
  • DIALOGUE
    1. A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises. 2. A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning

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