Conversation

n.	1.	General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. - Philip. i. 27.
	2.	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. - Bacon.
	3.	Commerce; intercourse; traffic. All traffic and mutual conversation. - Hakluyt.
	4.	Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. - Macaulay.
	5.	Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

Noun

1.

conversation - the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

ESP, accents, answer, chatter, collegiality, comment, commerce, communication, communion, community, confabulation, congress, connection, contact, converse, correspondence, dealing, dealings, debate, deliberation, discourse, elocution, exchange, fellowship, gab, gossip, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, language, linguistic intercourse, message, observation, oral communication, palaver, parole, prattle, rapping, remark, repartee, reply, response, social activity, social intercourse, social relations, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, talk, talking, telepathy, touch, traffic, truck, two-way communication, ventilation, words, yakkety-yak, yakking

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