TALKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does talking mean? 

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

1. an exchange of ideas via conversation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TALKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exchange of ideas via conversation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

talk; talking

Context example:

let's have more work and less talk around here

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

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

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

cant; pious platitude (insincere talk about religion or morals)

dialog; dialogue; duologue (a conversation between two persons)

heart-to-heart (an intimate talk in private)

shmooze ((Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk)

shop talk (talk about your business that only others in the same business can understand)

idle words; jazz; malarkey; malarky; nothingness; wind (empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk)

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak (noisy talk)

Derivation:

talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)

 Context examples 

Uncle doesn't know ten words, and insists on talking English very loud, as if it would make people understand him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He did not know what they said, but he could see the man and Grey Beaver talking together.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Hannah was evidently fond of talking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Talking of the blank spaces of the map gives me an idea.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I half awoke from this uncomfortable doze, I found Peggotty and my mother both in tears, and both talking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the door I paused a moment, for I thought I heard him talking with some one.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Perhaps we are talking about you; therefore I would advise you not to listen, or you may happen to hear something not very agreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My uncle thought me wrong, and I knew he had been talking to you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had seen Mrs Croft, too; she was at Taunton with the admiral, and had been present almost all the time they were talking the matter over.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The captain, the squire, and I were talking matters over in the cabin.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)