noun, verb, -coursed, -cours⋅ing.| 1. | communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse. |
| 2. | a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing, as a dissertation, treatise, sermon, etc. |
| 3. | Linguistics. any unit of connected speech or writing longer than a sentence. |
| 4. | to communicate thoughts orally; talk; converse. |
| 5. | to treat of a subject formally in speech or writing. |
| 6. | to utter or give forth (musical sounds). |

dis·course (dĭs'kôrs', -kōrs') n.
v. intr.
To narrate or discuss. [Middle English discours, process of reasoning, from Medieval Latin discursus, from Latin, a running about, from past participle of discurrere, to run about : dis-, apart; see dis- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.] dis·cours'er n. |