Word Meanings - COLLOQUY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood. 2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation

Additional info about word: COLLOQUY

1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood. 2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLLOQUY)

• Conversation
• Converse
• dialogue
• talk
• conference
• colloquy
• confabulation
• chat
• Dialogue
• Tete-a-tete
• conversation
• discourse
• Interview
• Colloquy
• consultation
• meeting

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COLLOQUY)

• Keep silent

Related words: (words related to COLLOQUY)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• COLLOQUY
  1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood. 2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. 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
• MEETEN
  To render fit.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• MEETH
  , Mead. See Meathe. Chaucer.
• MEETINGHOUSE
  A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
• INTERVIEWING
  The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews. An article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.
• TETE-A-TETE
  1. Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons. 2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
• MEETNESS
  Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• CONVERSE
  to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. 1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world,
• SILENT
  Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• INTERVIEWER
  One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.
• CONVERSATION
  conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
• SILENTIOUS
  Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
• CONVERSATIONISM
  A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• SMEETH
  To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.