Word Meaning

discourse definition and meaning

n. 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 of reasoning faculty.
n. Conversation; talk.
n. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
n. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
n. Dealing; transaction.
v. i. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
v. i. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
v. i. To relate something; to tell.
v. i. To treat of something in writing and formally.
v. t. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
v. t. To utter or give forth; to speak.
v. t. To talk to; to confer with.