Meaning

5 senses
  1. (literary, uncountable)Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

  2. The opposite or reverse.

    Gegenteil, Umkehrung

    противоположностьprotivopoložnostʹ

  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.

    All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.

    Gegenteil, Umkehrung, Umkehrschluss

  4. One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.

  5. Synonym of transpose.

More definitions
  • a proposition obtained by conversion

Examples

44 sentences
  1. It was nice to converse with her.

    Було приємно з нею говорити. — aandrusiak

    ruС ней было приятно поговорить. — marafon

  2. Tom and Mary were conversing in French.

  3. I often converse with her.

    Я часто спілкуюся з нею. — ascolto

  4. She enjoyed conversing with him.

    Їй сподобалося з ним спілкуватися. — deniko

    deSie genoss es, sich mit ihm zu unterhalten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. He conversed with those exchange students.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
opposite:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
opposite:
proposition of the specific form:

Origin

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

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

From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”).

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Forms

plural: converses
Singularconverse

uncountable

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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