noun conversation; talk.
2. discourse ·noun dealing; transaction.
3. discourse ·vt to talk to; to confer with.
4. discourse ·noun the art and manner of speaking and conversing.
5. discourse ·vi to treat of something in writing and formally.
6. discourse ·vt to treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
7. discourse ·vi to relate something; to tell.
8. discourse ·vt to utter or give forth; to speak.
9. discourse ·vi to exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
10. discourse ·noun consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, ·etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
11. discourse ·vi to express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
12. discourse ·noun the power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.