COLLOQUY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colloquy mean? 

• COLLOQUY (noun)
  The noun COLLOQUY has 2 senses:

1. a conversation especially a formal one

2. formal conversation

  Familiarity information: COLLOQUY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLOQUY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conversation especially a formal one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("colloquy" is a kind of...):

conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Formal conversation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("colloquy" is a kind of...):

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

 Context examples 

I never spoke to it, and it never spoke to me, in words; but I read its eyes, and it read mine; and our speechless colloquy was to this effect—It was a fairy, and come from Elf-land, it said; and its errand was to make me happy: I must go with it out of the common world to a lonely place—such as the moon, for instance—and it nodded its head towards her horn, rising over Hay-hill: it told me of the alabaster cave and silver vale where we might live.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)