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/kənˈvɜːrsɪŋ/ · con·vers·ing
verb
- To talk; to engage in conversation. She spent the afternoon conversing with her neighbors about the garden.
- To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; usually followed by *with*. The monks were conversing with the pilgrims during the retreat.
- To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study. He is conversing in the nuances of medieval law after years of research.
noun
- The act of talking with someone; informal talk. Their morning conversing set a friendly tone for the meeting.
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Did you know? The gerund *conversing* appears in Shakespeare’s *Much Ado About Nothing*, where characters are described as ‘conversing in the garden’—one of the earliest literary attestations of the -ing form used as a noun.