conversation

Plural: conversations

Noun

• the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
• Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
• The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
• The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
• Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
• Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
• Sexual intercourse.
• Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.

Verb

• To engage in conversation (with).

Examples

• criminal conversation
• I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.
• Our travellers had happened to take up their residence at a house of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their way to Bath. The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. Indeed, so foul and contagious are all such proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or of a house of ill repute, to all those where they are suffered to be carried on.
• You need to improve conversation in foreign languages.

Synonyms

Netflix and chill, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, aphrodisia, ass, bang, banter, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, boom-boom, carnal knowledge, chat, chesterfield rugby, chinwag, coition, coitus, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, cuntfuck, dialogue, discussion, familiarity, fooling about, fooling around, frig, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, hanky-panky, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, hump, humpa humpa, intercourse, interlocution, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, joining, lay, legover, love, lovemaking, lustmaking, making whoopee, marital embrace, mating, meat injection, monkey business, mounting, nookie, old hat, pareunia, penetration, physical love, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, poon, poontang, powwow, punani, pussy, relations, ride, roll in the hay, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, screw, screwing, seeing-to, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shag, skin, snu snu, swiving, table talk, tang, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, trim, understanding, union

Related Words

conversant, converse