interlocution

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Concept: Interlocution.
Category: 2. Conventional means; spoken language
Synonyms:
-nouns
interlocution; collocution, colloquy, converse, conversation, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue., causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, tea-table talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village., conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione; congress (council); powwow [U.S.]., hall of audience, durbar., palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words., gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer (loquacity); interlocutor (spokesman); conversationist, dialogist., "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope); mollia tempora fandi.
-verbs
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 (loquacity); 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.
-adjectives
conversing; interlocutory; conversational, conversable; discursive, discoursive; chatty (sociable); colloquial.
-phrases
"with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost].
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Main Entry: talk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: discussion
Synonyms: argument, colloquy, conclave, confabulation, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, earful, encounter, eyeball-to-eyeball, huddle, interlocution, interview, meeting, negotiation, palaver, parlance, parley, powwow, seminar, spiel*, straight talk, symposium, ventilation, visit
Antonyms: silence
Main Entry: dialogue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk
Synonyms: chat, colloquy, communication, confab, confabulation, conference, conversation, converse, dialog, discourse, discussion, duologue, exchange, flap, interlocution, lines, parlance, parley, powwow, rap, rap session, remarks, repartee, script, sides, small talk
Antonyms: monologue, soliloquy
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