converseとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kənˈvɜːs/
• (米国用法) enPR: kənvûrs', IPA^(key): /kənˈvɝs/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

動詞

converse (三人称単数 現在形 converses, 現在分詞 conversing, 過去形および過去分詞形 conversed)

1. (formal, intransitive) to talk; to engage in conversation
   • c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in Cutting a Iust Pound of His Flesh. And the Obtaining of Portia, by the Choyce of Three Caskets, quarto edition, [London]: Printed by J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216, [Act III, scene iv]:
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden?)

     We had conversed so often on that subject.

2. to keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomson?)

     To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.

   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott?)
   • 1820, William Wordsworth, Ivanhoe Chapter 4

     Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.

     But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.

3. (obsolete) to have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study
   • (Can we date this quote by John Locke?)

     according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety

派生語

• conversation

名詞

converse

2. (now literary) familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
   • 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:

     Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]

   • 1919, Saki, ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 405:

     In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse.

語源 2

From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”)

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnvɜːs/
• (米国用法) enPR: kŏn'vûrs, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnvɝs/

形容詞

converse (not comparable)

1. opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal

   a converse proposition

名詞

converse (複数形 converses)

1. the opposite or reverse
2. (logic) of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."
   equivalently: given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs".

   All trees are plants, but the converse, that all plants are trees, is not true.

4. (semantics) one of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym

派生語

• conversely

アナグラム

• Cervones, conserve, coveners

Latin

Participle

converse

1. vocative masculine singular of conversus