CONVERSATION


Meaning of CONVERSATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kɒnvə(r)seɪʃ(ə)n ]

( conversations)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.

He’s a talkative guy, and I struck up a conversation with him...

I waited for her to finish a telephone conversation.

N-COUNT

2.

If you say that people are in conversation , you mean that they are talking together.

When I arrived I found her in conversation with Mrs Williams.

PHRASE : v-link PHR

3.

If you make conversation , you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.

He had been trying to make conversation.

PHRASE : V inflects

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