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converse
1[ verb kuhn-vurs; noun kon-vurs ]
verb (used without object)
- to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
- Archaic. to maintain a familiar association (usually followed by with ).
- Obsolete. to have sexual intercourse (usually followed by with ).
noun
- familiar discourse or talk; conversation.
converse
2[ adjective kuhn-vurs, kon-vurs; noun kon-vurs ]
adjective
- opposite or contrary in direction, action, sequence, etc.; turned around.
noun
- something opposite or contrary.
- Logic.
- a proposition obtained from another proposition by conversion.
- the relation between two terms, one of which is related to the other in a given manner, as “younger than” to “older than.”
- a group of words correlative with a preceding group but having a significant pair of terms interchanged, as “hot in winter but cold in summer” and “cold in winter but hot in summer.”
Converse
3[ kon-vurs ]
noun
- Frederick Shep·herd [shep, -erd], 1871–1940, U.S. composer.
converse
1/ ˈkɒnvɜːs /
adjective
- prenominal reversed; opposite; contrary
noun
- something that is opposite or contrary
- logic
- a categorical proposition obtained from another by the transposition of subject and predicate, as no bad man is bald from no bald man is bad
- a proposition so derived, possibly by weakening a universal proposition to the corresponding particular, as some socialists are rich from all rich men are socialists
- logic maths a relation that holds between two relata only when a given relation holds between them in reverse order: thus father of is the converse of son of
converse
2verb
- to engage in conversation (with)
- to commune spiritually (with)
- obsolete.
- to associate; consort
- to have sexual intercourse
noun
- conversation (often in the phrase hold converse with )
- obsolete.
- fellowship or acquaintance
- sexual intercourse
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Derived Forms
- conˈverser, noun
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Other Words From
- con·verser noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of converse1
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Origin of converse1
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Example Sentences
And the converse, that the more likely an event, the less sure we are, also is true.
Which leads to the converse problem of treating children for disorders they do not have.
Cobain regularly wore Converse sneakers, and was wearing a pair when his body was found on April 8,1994.
Throughout its history Converse has maintained strong ties to street culture.
Yet somehow, despite the divergent approaches and subjects, the captured characters converse with ease.
When a man converses with himself, he is sure that he does not converse with an enemy.
The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.
There he was found by old Makitok, and for some time the giant and the wizard held converse together.
You see it for yourself, no Englishman ever shall suspect me, when we shall converse, of being other than a Briton.
But surely this point of view is the very converse of the teachings of common sense.
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