conversationist
conversationist noun: someone skilled in the art of conversation.
Noun
conversationist (plural conversationists)
- Someone skilled in the art of conversation.
- Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.1914, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
- BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate...1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Forms of conversationist
| plural | conversationists |
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Origin of conversationist
From conversation + -ist.
Questions about conversationist
- What does conversationist mean?
- Conversationist means someone skilled in the art of conversation.
- What part of speech is conversationist?
- Conversationist is a noun.
- What is the plural of conversationist?
- The plural of conversationist is conversationists.
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