0 (a) talk between two or more people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideas are expressed, questions are asked and answered, or news and information is exchanged:
She had a strange conversation with the man who moved in upstairs.
It's impossible to hold/carry on a conversation with all this noise going on!
I struck up (= started) an interesting conversation with your uncle.
Because of television, many people have lost the art of conversation (= talking to each other).
Whenever I'm in a social situation with my boss, we seem to run out of conversation (= things to say to each other) after two minutes!
1 an informal, usually private, talk in which two or more people exchange thoughts, feelings, or ideas, or in which news or information is given or discussed:
2 a discussion with someone about a particular subject:
There are certain topics of conversation that are not suitable for polite society.
She completely monopolized the conversation at lunch.
I wish Dad would stop listening in on my phone conversations.
To the extent that conversations are implicitly expected or planned to co-occur with dinners, coffee breaks, or other scheduled activities, they are also temporally constrained.
In comparison to ordinary conversations, less common words are employed in both informational and narrative texts.
Clarification requests play an important role in effective conversations, and children must learn the conversational rules for interpreting and responding to such requests.
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