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talkfest

talkfest noun: a session of enthusiastic discussion or gossip.

Noun

talkfest (plural talkfests)

  1. (informal) A session of enthusiastic discussion or gossip.
    • What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candidates for office need is a fresh source of hot-eyed national polarization.2004 February 6, William Safire, “Abolish the Penny”, in The New York Times
    • The regular January talkfest high in the Swiss Alps attracted an impressive list of world leaders of all political persuasions.2024 January 19, Larry Elliott, John Collingridge, “Casting their shadow: how Trump, Putin and AI dominated talk at Davos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of talkfest

pluraltalkfests

Origin of talkfest

From talk + -fest.

Questions about talkfest

What does talkfest mean?
Talkfest means a session of enthusiastic discussion or gossip.
What part of speech is talkfest?
Talkfest is a noun.
What is the plural of talkfest?
The plural of talkfest is talkfests.

Words near talkfest in the dictionary

  1. talker
  2. talkers
  3. talkest
  4. talkest like a book
  5. talketh
  6. talkfest
  7. talkfests
  8. talkful
  9. talkgroup
  10. talkgroups
  11. Talkhab-e Kalat

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