conversation

Etymology
From, from and its etymon, , accusative singular of , from. Morphologically.

Noun

 * 1) Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
 * 2)  The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
 * 3)  The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
 * 4)  Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
 * 5)  Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
 * 6)  Sexual intercourse.
 * 7) * Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
 * "en"
 * 1)  The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
 * 2)  The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
 * 3)  Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
 * 4)  Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
 * 5)  Sexual intercourse.
 * 6) * Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
 * "en"
 * 1)  Sexual intercourse.
 * 2) * Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
 * "en"
 * 1) * Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
 * "en"
 * 1) * Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
 * "en"

- 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.


 * 1)  Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
 * 2) * 1570,, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
 * So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world.
 * So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world.

Usage notes

 * To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence.
 * To have a conversation, and to hold a conversation, both mean to converse.
 * See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: llafosje,
 * Arabic: مُحَادَثَة, مُكَالَمَة,, مُذَاكَرَة
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, qonuşma,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: размо́ва, гу́тарка
 * Bhojpuri: 𑂥𑂰𑂞𑂍𑂯𑂲
 * Bulgarian:, , , , разгова́ряне
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: конверза́ція, розговор
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 會話, 談話, 對話
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: keskows, keskowsow
 * Crimean Tatar: qonuşma, subet, musaabe
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: conversatiaun
 * Danish: konversation,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: konversacio, interparolo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: samrøða, prát
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: საუბარი, ლაპარაკი
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: Underhaltig
 * Greek:, , συνδιάλλαξη, ,
 * Ancient: διάλογος
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, गुफ़्तगू
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: comhrá
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , , , カンバセーション
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:, әңгіме
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گفتوگۆ, بارودۆخ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: kolokyo, charla, lakirdi
 * Lao:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: saruna
 * Lithuanian: pokalbis
 * Luganda: emboozi
 * Luxembourgish: Gespréich
 * Macedonian:
 * Magahi: 𑂏𑂪𑂥𑂰𑂞
 * Malay:, percakapan
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: reoreo
 * Marathi: संवाद, संभाषण
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Norman: convèrsâtion
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, konversasjon
 * Nynorsk:, konversasjon
 * Oromo: haasaa
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , , , , , , , , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: còmhradh, agallamh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ра̏згово̄р
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: konverzácia, rozhovor
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, гуфтугу, гуфтугуй, сӯхбат, муколама, муҳодаса, музокира
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྐད་ཆ, བཀའ་མོལ
 * Tok Pisin: toktok
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: gürrüň, söhbet
 * Ukrainian: розмо́ва,, розгово́р, конверза́ція , гові́рка , гу́тірка ,
 * Urdu:, گُفْتگُو, گُفْتَگُو, , , بَحْث, مُحادَثَہ, مُذاکَرَہ
 * Uyghur: سۆھبەت, سۆزلىشىش, دىئالوگ, پاراڭلىشىش
 * Uzbek:, gaplashish, , , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, spikotam
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: petear
 * Yiddish: שמועס, געשפּרעך

Verb

 * 1)  To engage in conversation (with).

Etymology
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