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converse

verb
/kənˈvɜːs/UK/kənˈvɝs/US/ˈkɒnvɜːs/UK/ˈkɑnvɝs/US

Etymology

From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”).

  1. derived from conversor — “live, have dealings with”
  2. derived from converser

Definitions

  1. To talk

    To talk; to engage in conversation.

    • Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together.
    • We had conversed so often on that subject.

  2. To keep company

    To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.

    • To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.
    • But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
    • Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.

  3. To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

    • according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views

      Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

      • Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]
      • [R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.
      • She had around her gay converse, in which she had no share; and laughter, in which she was little tempted to join.

    2. Opposite

      Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.

      • a converse proposition

    3. The opposite or reverse.

    4. Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B…

      Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

      • All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.

    5. One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives

      One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.

    6. Synonym of transpose.

    7. A surname.

    8. A shoe of an American-based brand of that name.

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Derived

conversable, conversancy, conversation, converseness, conversible, conversely

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at converse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at converse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at converse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA