colloquy
UK/ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/
colloquy noun: a conversation or dialogue.
Noun
colloquy (countable and uncountable, plural colloquies)
- A conversation or dialogue.
- And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
- House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- A formal conference.
- A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- A written discourse.
- A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.1999, H. L. Pohlman, The Whole Truth?: A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail, →ISBN, page 193
- A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals.2021, Giuseppina Ieraci, “Erasmus' Colloquies: Latin and the Good Life”, in Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
- That a man should speak Latin was taken for granted, but to speak good Latin required training, and to give this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ...1919 January, Florence A. Gragg, “Two Schoolmasters of the Renaissance”, in The Classical Journal, volume 14, number 4, pages 211-223
Verb
colloquy (third-person singular simple present colloquies, present participle colloquying, simple past and past participle colloquied)
- To converse.
colloquy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Indonesian and Vietnamese
colloquy in Tamil
- உரையாடல்
colloquy in Urdu
- بات چیت, گفتگو
colloquy in Indonesian
- conversation, dialogue
- mengandung percakapan
colloquy in Vietnamese
- conversation, dialogue
- hội đàm
Antonyms of colloquy
Forms of colloquy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | colloquies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | colloquies |
| present participle | colloquying |
| past participle | colloquied |
| past | colloquied |
Origin of colloquy
From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
Words formed from colloquy
Questions about colloquy
- What does colloquy mean?
- Colloquy means a conversation or dialogue.
- What is colloquy in Tamil?
- Colloquy in Tamil is உரையாடல். See Colloquy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is colloquy?
- Colloquy can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce colloquy?
- Colloquy is pronounced /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of colloquy?
- The plural of colloquy is colloquies.
Words near colloquy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: colloquy (page history and authors); colloquy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); colloquy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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