conversation
/ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.75 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
Uncountable
noun
The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid."
- "You need to improve conversation in foreign languages."
- "Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it."
- "M. Nioche pressed his finger-tips together and slowly raised his shoulders. “A little conversation!” / “Conversation—that’s it!” murmured Mademoiselle Noémie, who had caught the word. “The conversation of the best society.” / “Our French conversation is famous, you know,” M. Nioche ventured to continue."
- "When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper."
- "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place."
Etymology
From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”). Displaced native Old English wordlaþu. Doublet of conversazione. Morphologically converse + -ation.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/