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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : verb kuhn-vurs; noun kon-vurs
Phonetic Transcription : verb kənˈvɜrs; noun ˈkɒn vɜrs

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Définition of converse

Origin :
  • "to communicate (with)," 1590s; earlier "to move about, live, dwell" (mid-14c.), from Old French converser "to talk" (12c.), from Latin conversari (see conversation). Related: Conversed; conversing.
  • noun opposite
  • verb talk
Example sentences :
  • There, if it be your wish, I will propose you; messengers will be appointed to converse with you.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • It is time now, I think, to test my theory by considering the converse of it.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • It was, indeed, necessary for me to converse by the medium of an interpreter.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • The stone-breaker, who had not broken a fragment since we began to converse, then did as follows.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • The letters would rather warrant the converse of his statement.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • In many essentials, John Effingham was the converse of all this.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Converse with the world will do more for you than all the arguments of philosophers.
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
  • Men are born to converse with men, not with stocks and stones.
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
  • But this is a subject on which in future we will not converse.
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
  • When you converse with him you lose all consciousness of this world.
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

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