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converse

Pronunciation: /kənˈvɜːs/

The English word “converse” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To talk; to engage in conversation.
  2. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
  3. To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

noun

  1. Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
  2. The opposite or reverse.
  3. Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
  4. One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
  5. Synonym of transpose.

adjective

  1. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.

Etymology

From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”).

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