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conversing

conversing is the present participle and gerund of converse.

Meaning of converse

Verb

converse (third-person singular simple present converses, present participle conversing, simple past and past participle conversed)

  1. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
    • Companions[…]
      That do converse and waste the time together.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
    • To seek the distant hills, and there converse
      With nature.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
    • according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC

See all 11 meanings of converse

Noun

conversing (plural conversings)

  1. conversation
    • Have you not, in your own secret souls, in your own private conversings, felt that there are woes and evils, in this accursed system, far beyond what are here shadowed, or can be shadowed?1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Forms of conversing

pluralconversings

Questions about conversing

What does conversing mean?
Conversing means conversation.
What is conversing the present participle and gerund of?
Conversing is the present participle and gerund of converse.
What part of speech is conversing?
Conversing is a noun.
What is the plural of conversing?
The plural of conversing is conversings.

Words near conversing in the dictionary

  1. converses
  2. conversest
  3. converseth
  4. conversi
  5. conversible
  6. conversing
  7. conversings
  8. conversion
  9. conversion course
  10. conversion courses
  11. conversion disorder

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