dialogue
Syllables: di·a·logue/ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡ/UK/ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/
dialogue noun: a conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. Also the nonstandard form of dialog.
Noun
dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)
- A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
- Melinda and Bill maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.
- Start up a dialogue
- In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
- The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.
- In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films."2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42
- A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
- A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
- The relationship between two texts or artworks interpreted as responding to each other (regardless of whether this is actually possible).
- Additionally, juxtaposition introduces the potential for a multivocal approach to academic writing, with juxtaposed texts in dialogue with one another, thus enabling linguistic and modal variety (Lillis, 2011).2015 November 4, Theresa Lillis, Kathy Harrington, Working with Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice, Parlor Press LLC, →ISBN, page 321
Verb
dialogue (third-person singular simple present dialogues, present participle dialoguing, simple past and past participle dialogued)
- To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
- Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
- To put into dialogue form.
- To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
- Dost [thou] dialogue with thy shadow?c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
Also used as
dialogue is also the nonstandard form of dialog.
dialogue meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
dialogue in Hindi
- conversation or other discourse between individuals
- बातचीत bātcīt, गुफ़्तगू guftagū, गुफ्तगू guphtagū, बात bāt, सुहबत suhbat, संभाषण sambhāṣaṇ
dialogue in Tamil
- conversation or other discourse between individuals
- உரையாடல் uraiyāṭal
dialogue in Urdu
- conversation or other discourse between individuals
- بات چِیت bāt cīt, گُفْتگُو guftgū, گُفْتَگُو guftagū, مُکالَمَہ mukālama, صُحْبَت suhbat, بَحْث bahs
dialogue in Bengali
- conversation or other discourse between individuals
- সংলাপ śoṅlap
More languagesFewer languages
- dialogue in Telugu
- సంభాషణ sambhāṣaṇa, డైలాగ్ ḍailāg
- dialogue in Malayalam
- സംഭാഷണം sambhāṣaṇaṁ
- dialogue in Gujarati
- સંવાદ sãvād
- dialogue in Odia
- ସଂଳାପ
- dialogue in Pashto
- سکالو skāló
- dialogue in Tagalog
- dalwausap
- dialogue in Arabic
- حِوَار ḥiwār, مُحَادَثَة muḥādaṯa, مُكَالَمَة mukālama
- dialogue in Malay
- dialog, perbualan, percakapan
- dialogue in Indonesian
- dialog, percakapan
- dialogue in Persian
- دیالوگ diyâlog
- dialogue in Thai
- การสนทนา gaan-sǒn-tá-naa, บทพูด, บทสนทนา
- dialogue in Vietnamese
- sự hội thoại
- dialogue in Myanmar
- အပြော a.prau:
Examples of dialogue in a sentence
- Today we brought together clergy from the Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, and Reformed traditions for ecumenical dialogue.
- What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
- The dialogue in your screenplay is flat — you need to make it more exciting.
Forms of dialogue
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dialogues |
| alternative US | dialog |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dialogues |
| present participle | dialoguing |
| past participle | dialogued |
| past | dialogued |
Origin of dialogue
Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”), equivalent to dia- (“between”) + -logue. Also analyzable as di- (“two”) + -alogue.
Words formed from dialogue
Phrases with dialogue
Questions about dialogue
- What does dialogue mean?
- Dialogue means a conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
- What is dialogue in Hindi?
- Dialogue in Hindi is बातचीत (bātcīt), गुफ़्तगू (guftagū), गुफ्तगू (guphtagū). See Dialogue meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dialogue?
- Dialogue can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce dialogue?
- Dialogue is pronounced /ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dialogue?
- The plural of dialogue is dialogues.
Words near dialogue in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dialogue (page history and authors); dialogue (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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