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Converse   /kˈɑnvərs/  /kənvˈərs/   Listen
Converse

verb
(past & past part. conversed; pres. part. conversing)
1.
Carry on a conversation.  Synonym: discourse.
noun
1.
A proposition obtained by conversion.
adjective
1.
Of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other.
2.
Turned about in order or relation.  Synonyms: reversed, transposed.





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"Converse" Quotes from Famous Books



... giddy whirl of the waltz. That delightful exercise has always been dear to me; I know of nothing more beautiful, more worthy of a beautiful woman and a young man; all dances compared with the waltz are but insipid conventions or pretexts for insignificant converse. It is truly to possess a woman, in a certain sense, to hold her for a half hour in your arms, and to draw her on in the dance, palpitating in spite of herself, in such a way that it can not be positively asserted whether she is being protected or seduced. Some deliver themselves ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... and Josiah Crabtree converse earnestly for several minutes. The man who had escaped from jail pointed to a big bundle he carried and Pelter nodded. Then both walked slowly across the railroad tracks to a dock jutting out into ...
— The Rover Boys in New York • Arthur M. Winfield
... sledge at "the enchanting, starry winter sky overhead," or in early spring feels on a ramble "intoxicated by the beauty of the morning," while he notes that the buds are swelling on the lilacs, and "the birds no longer sing at random," but have begun to converse. ...
— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy
... comet, the imagination travels wakefully by night, and the heart leaps as it draws near to the silver bosses of the moon. Mrs. Merillia was soon obliged to permit the intrusion of a gigantic telescope into her pretty drawing-room, and found herself expected to converse at the dinner-table on the eight moons of Saturn, the belts of Jupiter, the asteroids of Mars and the phases of Venus. These last she at first declined to discuss with a man, even though he were her grandson. But she was won over by the Prophet's innocent persuasiveness, ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens
... were appointed me, and three hundred tailors made me a suit of clothes. Moreover, six of his Majesty's greatest scholars were employed to teach me their language, so that soon I was able to converse after a fashion with the Emperor, who often honored me with his visits. The first words I learned were to desire that he would please to give me my liberty, which I every day repeated on my knees; but he answered ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various


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