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fireside chat

fireside chat noun: any one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.

Noun

fireside chat (plural fireside chats)

  1. (historical) Any one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
  2. (broadly) An informal address delivered by a political leader over radio, television, or the Internet.

Forms of fireside chat

pluralfireside chats

Questions about fireside chat

What does fireside chat mean?
Fireside chat means any one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
What part of speech is fireside chat?
Fireside chat is a noun.
What is the plural of fireside chat?
The plural of fireside chat is fireside chats.

Words near fireside chat in the dictionary

  1. firesheds
  2. fireshine
  3. fireship
  4. fireships
  5. fireside
  6. fireside chat
  7. fireside chats
  8. Fireside Poets
  9. fireside set
  10. fireside sets
  11. firesides

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