conversation
Meanings
Plural: conversations
Noun
- the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
- Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
- The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
- The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
- Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
- Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
Verb
- To engage in conversation (with).
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”). Doublet of conversazione.
Morphologically converse + -ation.
Synonyms
action, aphrodisia, ass, bang, banter, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, boom-boom, carnal knowledge, chat, chesterfield rugby, chinwag, coition, coitus, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, cuntfuck, dialogue, discussion, familiarity, fooling about, fooling around, frig, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, hanky-panky, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, hump, humpa humpa, intercourse, interlocution, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, joining, lay, legover, love, lovemaking, lustmaking, making whoopee, marital embrace, mating, meat injection, monkey business, mounting, Netflix and chill, nookie, old hat, pareunia, penetration, physical love, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, poon, poontang, powwow, punani, pussy, relations, ride, roll in the hay, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, screw, screwing, seeing-to, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shag, skin, snu snu, swiving, table talk, tang, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, trim, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, understanding, union
Scrabble Score: 17
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