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Word entry · 8 letters

colloquy

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"Formal conversation"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/Part of speech nounSorted cllooquyStarts with CEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. A formal conversation or dialogue.

Word origin

From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.

Used in a sentence

  • And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.
  • House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
  • At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.

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