Definition of Conversation

Convent

CONVERSATION noun

	A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Coronation

Regular definition:

CONVERSATION:
?k?nv??se???n n. 1 the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words. 2 an instance of this. øconversation piece 1 a small genre painting of a group of figures. 2 a thing that serves as a topic of conversation because of its unusualness etc. conversation stopper colloq. an unexpected remark, esp. one that cannot readily be answered. [ME f. OF f. L conversatio -onis (as CONVERSE(1))]

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