Conversation vs. Conversationalist: What's the Difference?
Conversation and Conversationalist Definitions
Conversation
The exchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language
Gifted in the art of conversation.
Conversationalist
One given to or skilled at conversation.
Conversation
An instance of this
Held a long conversation on the subject.
Conversationalist
A person who participates in a conversation.
If you can just ask questions about a person and nod sagely then they will leave thinking you are a brilliant conversationalist.
Conversation
Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.
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Conversationalist
A person skilled in general conversation.
Conversation
(fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
Conversationalist
A conversationist.
Conversation
The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
Conversationalist
Someone skilled at conversation
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Conversation
(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
Conversation
(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
Conversation
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
Criminal conversation
Conversation
(obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
Conversation
To engage in conversation (with).
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Conversation
General course of conduct; behavior.
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.
Conversation
Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.
Conversation
Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
All traffic and mutual conversation.
Conversation
Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.
Conversation
Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
Conversation
The use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
