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converse

English

Etymology 1

From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (live, have dealings with)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?v??s/
  • (US) enPR: k?nvûrs', IPA(key): /k?n?v?s/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)s

Verb

converse (third-person singular simple present converses, present participle conversing, simple past and past participle conversed)

  1. (formal, intransitive) to talk; to engage in conversation
    • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
      We had conversed so often on that subject.
  2. to keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with
    • 1727, James Thomson, Summer
      To seek the distant hills, and there converse
      With nature.
    • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion
      But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
  3. (obsolete) to have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study
    • 1689-1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
      according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
Derived terms
  • conversation
Translations

Noun

converse

  1. (now literary) free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
    • 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
      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 []
    • 1919, Saki, ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 405:
      In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?nv??s/
  • (US) enPR: k?n'vûrs, IPA(key): /?k?nv?s/

Adjective

converse (not comparable)

  1. opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal

Noun

converse (plural converses)

  1. the opposite or reverse
  2. (logic) of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."
    equivalently: given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs".
    All trees are plants, but the converse, that all plants are trees, is not true.
  3. (semantics) one of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym
Derived terms
  • conversely
Translations

Anagrams

  • Cervones, conserve, coveners, encovers

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

converse f sg

  1. feminine singular of convers

Verb

converse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of converser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of converser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of converser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of converser
  5. second-person singular imperative of converser

Italian

Alternative forms

  • convergé (rare)

Verb

converse

  1. third-person singular past historic of convergere

Anagrams

  • conserve, scernevo

Latin

Participle

converse

  1. vocative masculine singular of conversus

Portuguese

Verb

converse

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of conversar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of conversar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of conversar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of conversar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kom?be?se/, [kõm?be?.se]

Verb

converse

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of conversar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of conversar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of conversar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of conversar.

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announce

English

Etymology

From Old French anoncier, from Latin ann?nti?re, from ad + n?nti? (report, relate), from n?ntius (messenger, bearer of news). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA(key): /??na?ns/
  • (UK) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA(key): /??na?ns/; enPR: ?'nouns, IPA(key): /?æ.na?ns/
  • Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)

  1. (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
    • c. 1780 William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain
      Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
    Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate
  2. (transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
    • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus
      Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
    Synonyms: abjudicate, judge

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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