chat | | |
n. (communication) | 1. chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze | an informal conversation. |
| ~ conversation | the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.. |
| ~ causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle | light informal conversation for social occasions. |
n. (animal) | 2. chat, new world chat | birds having a chattering call. |
| ~ new world warbler, wood warbler | small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song. |
| ~ genus icteria, icteria | New World chats. |
| ~ icteria virens, yellow-breasted chat | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds. |
n. (animal) | 3. chat, old world chat | songbirds having a chattering call. |
| ~ thrush | songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast. |
| ~ genus saxicola, saxicola | Old World chats. |
| ~ saxicola torquata, stonechat | common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast. |
| ~ saxicola rubetra, whinchat | brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows. |
v. (communication) | 4. chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit | talk socially without exchanging too much information.; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" |
| ~ converse, discourse | carry on a conversation. |
| ~ jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze | talk idly or casually and in a friendly way. |
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