Synonyms for discourse
ˈdɪs kɔrs, -koʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs; dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrsdis·course

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1. discoursenoun

   To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.

   Synonyms:
   talk, conversation, discussion, debate, converse

2. discoursenoun

   To write or speak formally and at length.

   Synonyms:
   communication, expression

3. discoursenoun

   To debate.

   Synonyms:
   lecture, dissertation, study, treatise

4. discoursenoun

   Any rational expression, reason.

   Synonyms:
   rationcination

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1. discourse

   Conversation (Latin con, with) is, etymologically, an interchange of ideas with some other person or persons. Talk may be wholly one-sided. Many brilliant talkers have been incapable of conversation. There may be intercourse without conversation, as by looks, signs, etc.; communion is of hearts, with or without words; communication is often by writing, and may be uninvited and unreciprocated. Talk may denote the mere utterance of words with little thought; thus, we say idle talk, empty talk, rather than idle or empty conversation. Discourse is now applied chiefly to public addresses. A conference is more formal than a conversation. Dialog denotes ordinarily an artificial or imaginary conversation, generally of two persons, but sometimes of more. A colloquy is indefinite as to number, and generally somewhat informal. Compare BEHAVIOR.

   Synonyms:
   chat, colloquy, communication, communion, confabulation, conference, conversation, converse, dialogue, intercourse, parley, talk

   Preposition:
   Conversation with friends; between or among the guests; about a matter.

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1. discoursenoun

   extended verbal expression in speech or writing

   Synonyms:
   discussion, sermon, treatment, preaching

2. sermon, discourse, preachingnoun

   an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

   Synonyms:
   discussion, sermon, treatment, preaching

3. discussion, treatment, discourseverb

   an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

   "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"

   Synonyms:
   sermon, handling, discussion, word, give-and-take, treatment, preaching, intervention

4. discourse, talk about, discussverb

   to consider or examine in speech or writing

   "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"

   Synonyms:
   talk over, converse, talk of, hash out, hold forth, dissertate, discuss, talk about

5. converse, discourseverb

   carry on a conversation

   Synonyms:
   discuss, talk about, converse, dissertate, hold forth

6. hold forth, discourse, dissertateverb

   talk at length and formally about a topic

   "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"

   Synonyms:
   discuss, talk about, converse, dissertate, hold forth

Matched Categories

1. • Address
   • Church
   • Language Unit
   • Talk

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1. discoursenoun

   Synonyms:
   [rare.] reason, reasoning faculty

2. discoursenoun

   Synonyms:
   dissertation, treatise, disquisition, homily, sermon

3. discoursenoun

   Synonyms:
   conversation, talk, oral communication, verbal intercourse

4. discourseverb

   Synonyms:
   speak, expatiate, hold forth, deliver a discourse

5. discourseverb

   Synonyms:
   talk, converse, parley, confer, advise, hold a conversation, hold a parley or conference, talk together

6. discourseverb

   Synonyms:
   utter, emit, give forth

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1. discoursenoun

   Synonyms:
   dissertation, address, disquisition, oration, harangue, speech

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1. List of paraphrases for "discourse":

   speech, speeches, rhetoric, discourses, discours, al-khattab, debate, address

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1. Jacob Lenfestey:

   What I do know is just days after the election Butler President James Danko had sent out a student-wide e-mail, and in that he had made a point to say that we should all accept President Trump as the winner of the election and move forward after months of negative political discourse. And I feel like, you know, the initial terms that they had used just don’t line up with President Danko’s goals.

2. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:

   (That was) a grave diplomatic mistake. Exxon Mobil is behind all this, i hope... the Guyanese president can reflect and take the necessary steps for a process of dialogue and abandon grandiloquent discourse and stop listening to the bad, pernicious and wrong advice from Exxon Mobil and the officials it has bought.

3. Pascal Perrineau:

   Sometimes contamination with the National Front's discourse goes as high as the president. He talked about closing borders and stripping dual nationals of their citizenship.

4. Roland Barthes:

   I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

5. Editor Curtis Houck:

   She painted leftists as somehow victims in all this, which is such a tiresome trick the left plays when people they don't like are in power. The image she paints of anyone who's not in her camp is one of brutality and violence that's such a tired trope yet it's actually dangerous. She's advocating for a more dramatic return to tribalism and that'll do nothing to cool the temperature of our discourse.