chat 1 of 2

noun

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1
as in talk
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this short chats between parents and teachers during the school's open house

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as in conversation
talking or a talk between two or more people a fireside chat between two of America's foremost men of letters

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chat

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verb

ˈchat How to pronounce chat (audio)
1
as in to talk
to engage in casual or rambling conversation the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours

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2
as in to chatter
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours

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Recent Examples of chat
Noun
Parents who link their accounts can set times when ChatGPT can’t be used and schedule study hours when the teens’ chats start in study mode. — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 Wax, set out the streamer’s Asia-Pacific plans at a fireside chat at the Park Hyatt Busan, backed by the Motion Picture Association, the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the festival and Disney+. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
Adam Johnson in West Virginia is still researching and chatting with ChatGPT about his ballot. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 Large-scale floral arrangements and sculptural lighting anchored the room as attendees mixed and mingled, chatting about the week’s biggest moments and the ever-changing designer landscape of the fashion capital. — Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chat
  1. talk
  2. conversation
  3. converse
  4. chatter
  5. gossip
  6. discussion
  7. shout
  8. chitchat
Noun
  • Banijay founder and chairman Stephane Courbit later met with Zucker in New York, though full merger talks didn’t begin until the following year, once RedBird IMI had ended talks with ITV over ITV Studios.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Colombia’s government has canceled peace talks with the nation’s remaining rebel groups, as de la Espriella takes a hard line on crime.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of talk
Noun
  • Drawn from nearly a decade’s worth of Simon’s conversations with an actual but anonymized retired FBI agent, these encyclopedic artworks appear to revel in the research that underpins them.
    — Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Tan plans to trace those shifts through small moments, such as a family dinner, a conversation, a silence or the absence of something once there.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of conversation
Verb
  • Mexican security forces, both military and police, were also observed conversing with Border Patrol agents over the international boundary.
    — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • This was already noticed long before the emergence of AI chatbots with the power to converse.
    — Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of converse
Verb
  • Some raved about the experience to those in line while others chattered among themselves about their thoughts.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As the courtroom cleared, a jumble of spectators and journalists chattered about the whiplash.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • The gossip hardens into something more official, as fellow teachers and school authorities start to treat her personal life as a disciplinary matter.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Just like there’s antisocial conflict and prosocial conflict, there is a prosocial form of gossip.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of gossip
Noun
  • It could be put on the Faculty Senate's agenda for discussion as soon as next week, several professors said in interviews.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Jackson used a portion of his rebuttal to try and refocus the discussion on Collins.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of discussion
Verb
  • The interiors, meanwhile, never shout but still seem to wow with luxe Mediterranean touches and tasteful art.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • News of their separation had been made public earlier this year when LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans for two charges of simple battery where he was eventually given probation despite allegedly also harassing locals and shouting homophobic slurs.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of shout
Noun
  • If this is true, the anonymous e-mailer, who worked at Domino’s with Webb, had inflated a report of some harmless chitchat between Crosby and her tenants into an actionable violation of jurors’ instructions not to discuss the case.
    — James Lasdun, New Yorker, 26 May 2026
  • For decades, late-night TV has introduced trailblazers trying to break, or reinvent, the staid routine of stand-up monologues and celebrity chitchat.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
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