Conversation

Definition of Conversation

Con`ver`sa´tion

n.	1.	General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. - Philip. i. 27.
	2.	Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. - Bacon.
	3.	Commerce; intercourse; traffic. All traffic and mutual conversation. - Hakluyt.
	4.	Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. - Macaulay.
	5.	Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

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