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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Conversation; talk.
3. noun. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. Dealing; transaction.
6. intransitive verb. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
7. intransitive 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.
8. intransitive verb. To relate something; to tell.
9. intransitive verb. To treat of something in writing and formally.
10. transitive verb. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
11. transitive verb. To utter or give forth; to speak.
12. transitive verb. To talk to; to confer with.
13. noun. extended verbal expression in speech or writing
14. noun. 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: discussion, treatment

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

    Synonyms: preaching, sermon

16. verb. talk at length and formally about a topic

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

    Synonyms: dissertate

17. verb. carry on a conversation

    Synonyms: converse

18. verb. 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: discuss

Synonyms

discussion, treatment, preaching, sermon, dissertate, converse, discuss

Common word forms

discoursed, discourser, discourses, discoursing, discourseless

Words from these letters

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