Noun

(en noun)

someone skilled in the art of conversations.

*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Sarah Knowles Bolton, title=Lives of Girls Who Became Famous, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Edited by Rev. James Wood, title=The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote "Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity," "Lectures on the Atomic Theory," and two volumes of "Essays, Scientific and Literary" (1817-1856). }}

*{{quote-book, year=1850, author=Various, title=International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=[A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer. }}