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discoursesnounpl. of discourse 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 chats, colloquies, conversations, converses, dialogues(also dialogs), discussions, exchanges banters, chaff, cross fires, give-and-takes, persiflages, railleries, reparteesconferences, parleys, powwowsbabbles, chatter, chin-wag(slang), chitchats, confabulations, gabfests, gossip, natters(chiefly British), palavers, prates, prattles, raps, small talk, table talkround-robins, roundtables(or less commonly round tables), symposia(or symposiums)debates, deliberations to give a formal often extended talk on a subjectthe guest lecturer discoursed at some length on the long-term results of the war declaims, descants, expatiates, harangues, lectures, orates, speaks, talks recites, soliloquizesdisserts, expounds, pontificates, sermonizesmouths, spoutsfilibusters holds forth, takes the floor to talk as if giving an important and formal speechgrandly discoursed as though he were an expert on every subject declaims, harangues, mouths (off), orates, perorates rants, ravesbloviates, blowslectures, preaches, sermonizesadvertises, announces, broadcasts, declares, proclaims, pronouncesspeaks, speechifies, talks |