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discoursenoun talking or a talk between two or more peopleThomas Jefferson is said to have been able to participate in knowledgeable discourse on a breathtaking array of subjects chat, colloquy, conversation, converse, dialogue(also dialog), discussion, exchange banter, chaff, cross fire, give-and-take, persiflage, raillery, reparteeconference, parley, powwow(informal, now offensive)babble, chatter, chin-wag(slang), chitchat, confabulation, gabfest, gossip, natter(chiefly British), palaver, prate, prattle, rap, small talk, table talkround-robin, roundtable, symposiumdebate, deliberation to give a formal often extended talk on a subjectthe guest lecturer discoursed at some length on the long-term results of the war declaim, descant, expatiate, harangue, lecture, orate, speak, talk recite, soliloquizedissert, expound, pontificate, sermonizemouth, spoutfilibuster hold forth, take the floor to talk as if giving an important and formal speechgrandly discoursed as though he were an expert on every subject declaim, harangue, mouth (off), orate, perorate rant, ravebloviate, blowlecture, preach, sermonizeadvertise, announce, broadcast, declare, proclaim, pronouncespeak, speechify, talk in the 15th century |