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, on dit
[Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village.
conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete;
reception, conversazione [It]; congress &c (council) 696; powwow
[U.S.].
hall of audience, durbar†.
palaver, debate, logomachy†, war of words.
gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c (loquacity) 584;
interlocutor &c (spokesman) 582; conversationist†, dialogist†.
the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope]; mollia tempora
fandi [Lat.].
V. 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 &c (loquacity) 584; 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.
Adj. conversing &c v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable†;
discursive, discoursive†; chatty &c (sociable) 892; colloquial.
Phr. with thee conversing I forget all time [Paradise Lost].