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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)
- (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.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- 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.
- To seek the distant hills, and there converse
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion
- But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
- 1727, James Thomson, Summer
- (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
- 1689-1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
Derived terms
- conversation
Translations
Noun
converse
- (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.
- 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
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)
- opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal
Noun
converse (plural converses)
- the opposite or reverse
- (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.
- (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
- feminine singular of convers
Verb
converse
- first-person singular present indicative of converser
- third-person singular present indicative of converser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of converser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of converser
- second-person singular imperative of converser
Italian
Alternative forms
- convergé (rare)
Verb
converse
- third-person singular past historic of convergere
Anagrams
- conserve, scernevo
Latin
Participle
converse
- vocative masculine singular of conversus
Portuguese
Verb
converse
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of conversar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of conversar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of conversar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of conversar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom?be?se/, [kõm?be?.se]
Verb
converse
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of conversar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of conversar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of conversar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of conversar.
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utter
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t?/, [??t?]
- (US) IPA(key): /??t?/, [????]
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Etymology 1
From Old English ?tera, comparative of ?t (“out”). Compare outer.
Adjective
utter (not comparable)
- (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote. [from 10th c.]
- (obsolete) Outward. [13th–16th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
- Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came […] .
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
- Absolute, unconditional, total, complete. [from 15th c.]
- utter ruin; utter darkness
- 1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions : Preface
- They […] are utter strangers to all those anxious […] thoughts which […] disquiet mankind.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:total
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Partly from out (adverb, verb), partly from Middle Dutch uteren.
Verb
utter (third-person singular simple present utters, present participle uttering, simple past and past participle uttered)
- (transitive) To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice.
- Synonyms: let out, say, speak
- Don't you utter another word!
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Proverbs 1.20,[2]
- Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London: J. Osborn, Volume 2, Chapter 50, p. 156,[3]
- […] he made no other reply, for some time, than lifting up his eyes, clasping his hands, and uttering a hollow groan.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Volume 1, Chapter 17, p. 263,[4]
- […] Laurie slyly pulled the parrot’s tail, which caused Polly to utter an astonished croak,
- (transitive) To reveal or express (an idea, thought, desire, etc.) with speech.
- Synonyms: declare, say, tell
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 35,[5]
- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 77,[6]
- […] tho’ a few odd Fellows will utter their own Sentiments in all Places, yet much the greater Part of Mankind have enough of the Courtier to accommodate their Conversation to the Taste and Inclination of their Superiors.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 4, Part 2, Book 8, Chapter 83, p. 323,[7]
- Each had been full of thoughts which neither of them could begin to utter.
- 1959, Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, New York: Time, 1964, Chapter , p. 213,[8]
- “Your master,” he declared, “has uttered a damnable lie about a dead friend of mine.”
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 528,[9]
- “Don’t worry about me,” he uttered with minimum lip movement.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce (a noise) (of an inanimate object).
- Synonyms: emit, let out
- Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
- (transitive, obsolete) To spit or blow (something) out of one's mouth.
- 1819, Washington Irving, “Rip van Winkle” in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., London: John Murray, 3rd ed., 1820, Volume 1, p. 79,[10]
- He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches;
- 1821, Charles Lamb, “The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple” in The London Magazine, Volume 4, No. 21, September 1821, p. 280,[11]
- Four little winged marble boys used to play their virgin fancies, spouting out ever fresh streams from their innocent-wanton lips, in the square of Lincoln’s-inn […] Are the stiff-wigged living figures, that still flitter and chatter about that area, less gothic in appearance? or, is the splutter of their hot rhetoric one half so refreshing and innocent, as the little cool playful streams those exploded cherubs uttered?
- 1819, Washington Irving, “Rip van Winkle” in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., London: John Murray, 3rd ed., 1820, Volume 1, p. 79,[10]
- (transitive, obsolete) To emit or give off (breath).
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV, Scene 2,[12]
- […] most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath;
- 1629, William Davenant, The Tragedy of Albovine, King of the Lombards, London: R. Moore, Act I, Scene 1,[13]
- […] now the King forsakes
- The Campe, he must maintaine luxurious mouthes,
- Such as can vtter perfum’d breath,
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV, Scene 2,[12]
- (transitive, archaic) To shed (a tear or tears).
- 1615, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Cupid’s Revenge, London: Josias Harrison, Act V, Scene 1,[14]
- […] weepe now or neuer, thou hast made more sorrowes then we haue eyes to vtter.
- 1928, Robert Byron, The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece, Bloomsbury, 2010, Chapter 6,[15]
- […] a mythological matron, in a classical helmet, uttering a tear at a rustic cross bound in blue and white ribbons and inscribed TO THE FALLEN—1912,
- 1615, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Cupid’s Revenge, London: Josias Harrison, Act V, Scene 1,[14]
- (transitive, obsolete) To offer (something) for sale; to sell.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Hunne, The History of Ireland,[16]
- […] certayne Merchants […] obteyned licence safely to arriue here in Ireland with their wares, and to vtter the same.
- c. 1594, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene 1,[17]
- Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua’s law
- Is death to any he that utters them.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, London: Henry Tomes, Book 2, p. 72,[18]
- […] at the Olimpian games […] some cam as Merchants to vtter their commodities,
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 51,[19]
- No infected Stuff [i.e. items made of cloth] to be uttered.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Hunne, The History of Ireland,[16]
- (transitive, obsolete) To put (currency) into circulation.
- Synonym: circulate
- 1564, Proclamation of Elizabeth I of England dated November, 1564, London: Richard Jugge and John Cawood, 1565,[20]
- […] there are […] forrayne peeces of golde, of the like quantitie and fashion (although of lesse value) lyke to an Englyshe Angell, brought hyther, and here vttered and payde for ten shyllynges of syluer, beyng for they lacke of wayght, and for the basenesse of the allay, not worth. vii. shillinges, to the great deceite and losse of the subiectes of this her Realme:
- 1735, Jonathan Swift, Drapier’s Letters, Letter 3, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, Dublin: George Faulkner, Volume 4, p. 123,[21]
- There is nothing remaining to preserve us from Ruin, but that the whole Kingdom should continue in a firm determinate Resolution never to receive or utter this FATAL Coin:
- 1842, cited in Supplement to The Jurist, containing a Digest of All the Reported Cases […] published during the year 1842, p. 49,[22]
- If two persons jointly prepare counterfeit coin, and then utter it in different shops, apart from each other, but in concert, and intending to share the proceeds, the utterings of each are the joint utterings of both, and they may be convicted jointly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To show (something that has been hidden); to reveal the identity of (someone).
- 1535, Miles Coverdale, Coverdale Bible, Genesis 45.1,[23]
- […] there stode no man by him, whan Ioseph vttred him self vnto his brethren.
- 1561, William Whittingham et al. (translators), Geneva Bible, Mark 3.12,[24]
- And he [Jesus] sharpely rebuked them [the unclean spirits], to the end they shulde not vtter him.
- 1535, Miles Coverdale, Coverdale Bible, Genesis 45.1,[23]
- (transitive, obsolete) To send or put (something) out.
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VI, year 37,[25]
- As fier beyng enclosed in a strayte place, wil by force vtter his flamme […]
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, “March,” Aegloga Tertia,[26]
- Seest not thilke same Hawthorne studde,
- How bragly it beginnes to budde,
- And vtter his tender head?
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VI, year 37,[25]
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse otr, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“water-animal, otter”), from *wed- (“water”).
Noun
utter c
- otter; a mammal of the family Mustelidae
Declension
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