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Conversationist   Listen
noun
Conversationist  n.  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Conversationist" Quotes from Famous Books



... a striking contrast between a man's style of writing and of talking,—for which I offer this explanation: He ponders what he writes; he talks without system. As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose;—or the reverse of this may ...
— The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various

... very careful that you do not repeat the same anecdotes or let off the same good things twice to the same person. Richard Sharpe, the "conversationist" as he was called in London, kept a regular book of entry, in which he recorded where and before whom he had uttered severally his choice sayings. The celebrated Bubb Doddington prepared a manuscript book of original faceti', which he was accustomed to read over when ...
— The Laws of Etiquette • A Gentleman



Words linked to "Conversationist" :   interlocutor, schmoozer, utterer, talker, conversationalist, conversational partner, verbaliser, conversation



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