Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue. causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement†; tripotage†, cackle, prittle-prattle†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village. conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress &c (council) 696; powwow [U.S.]. hall of audience, durbar†. palaver, debate, logomachy†, war of words. gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c (loquacity) 584; interlocutor &c (spokesman) 582; conversationist†, dialogist†. the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.]. V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate &c (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.]. discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete. Adj. conversing &c v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable†; discursive, discoursive†; chatty &c (sociable) 892; colloquial. Phr. with thee conversing I forget all time [Paradise Lost].