Dictionary Entry
discourse
discourse is a 9-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
- 2noun
Conversation; talk.
- 3noun
The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
- 4noun
Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
- 5noun
Dealing; transaction.
- 6intransitive verb
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- 7intransitive verb
To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
- 8intransitive verb
To relate something; to tell.
- 9intransitive verb
To treat of something in writing and formally.
- 10transitive verb
To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
- 11transitive verb
To utter or give forth; to speak.
- 12transitive verb
To talk to; to confer with.
- 13noun
extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- 14noun
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"
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- 15noun
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- 16verb
talk at length and formally about a topic
"The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"
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- 17verb
carry on a conversation
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- 18verb
to consider or examine in speech or writing
"The author talks about the different aspects of this question"
"The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
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