conversation

«conversation» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: talk, chat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

talk, chat

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Talk between two or more people. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means talk between people. The old sense "way of life or behaviour" is no longer common, but all three sentences use today's sense.

examples

• This was the end of their conversation. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• They had a long conversation together about different things. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• Just then, the conversation was interrupted by approaching footsteps. (The Adventures of Pinocchio) tree →

primary record

conversation

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 129 (Torah 0, tales 129, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 11; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• In long conversations a bot can lose track of things said much earlier.
• Bots cannot keep secrets like a friend; conversations may be saved.
• I have the gift of conversation.
• Snooping means looking at things that are meant for someone else: diaries, messages, letters, desks, conversations through a door.
• Not going away on holiday is normal, and true small stories make good conversations.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «conversation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.