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Added 5 October 2026

converse

/kənˈvɜːs/ verb

In Latin: colloquor, fabulor, sermōcinor Wiktionary

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To talk; to engage in conversation.
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

noun

Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

adjective

Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
a converse proposition

noun

The opposite or reverse.
Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.
One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.

Origin

From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”).

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