What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Converse vs Colloquy - What's the difference?

converse | colloquy | Related terms |

Converse is a related term of colloquy.


As a verb converse

is .

As a noun colloquy is

a conversation or dialogue.

converse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Verb

(convers)
  • (formal) To talk; to engage in conversation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Companions / That do converse and waste the time together.
  • * Dryden
  • We had conversed so often on that subject.
  • To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with .
  • * Thomson
  • To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
  • * Wordsworth
  • But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
  • (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
  • * John Locke
  • according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
    Derived terms
    * conversation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
  • * 1728 , (Edward Young), Love of Fame, the Universal Passion , Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
  • Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day [...].
  • * 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 405:
  • In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
  • a converse proposition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The opposite or reverse.
  • (logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."''
    equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs"
    .
  • All trees are plants, but the converse , that all plants are trees, is not true.
    Derived terms
    * conversely

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms ----

    colloquy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia colloquy) (colloquies)
  • A conversation or dialogue.
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) A formal conference.
  • (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
  • A written discourse.
  • (legal) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what their rights are.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=At the end of the colloquy , Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.
  • , title=The Whole Truth?: A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail , page=193 , author=H. L. Pohlman , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=El-CypXgpbwC&pg=PA193&dq=colloquy+judge&as_brr=0&cd=6&redir_esc=y
  • v=onepage&q=colloquy%20judge&f=false
  • , year=1999 , isbn=1-55849-165-1}}

    Antonyms

    * (a conversation of multiple people) (l)

    Hypernyms

    * conversation, conference, discourse, discussion

    Coordinate terms

    * dialog, dialogue

    Derived terms

    * colloquial * colloquist

    See also

    * colloquium

    References