CONVERSATIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conversationist mean? 

• CONVERSATIONIST (noun)
  The noun CONVERSATIONIST has 1 sense:

1. someone skilled at conversation

  Familiarity information: CONVERSATIONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVERSATIONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone skilled at conversation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

conversationalist; conversationist; schmoozer

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

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conversationist"):

deipnosophist (someone skilled at informal chitchat)

conversational partner; interlocutor (a person who takes part in a conversation)

Derivation:

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