Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

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
  • talk of the town, talk of the village. conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler
  • tete-a-tete
  • reception
  • congress etc. (council) Council
  • powwow [U.S.]. hall of audience, durbar. palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words. gossip, tattler
  • Paul Pry
  • tabby
  • chatterer etc. (loquacity) Loquacity
  • interlocutor etc. (spokesman) Speech
  • conversationist, dialogist. the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]
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) Loquacity
  • 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) Sociality
  • colloquial.
Phrases
  • with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost].