adj
Meaning 1
Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
conversant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
UK: /kənˈvɜːsənt/
-
US: /kənˈvɝsənt/
-
obsolete: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)sænt/
-
obsolete: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)sənt/
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N V ER1 S AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.
- c. 1694, John Dryden, letter to Mr. John Dennis deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy
- 1720, Thomas Parnell, corrected by Alexander Pope, "Essay on Homer", published with Pope's translation of the Iliad He uses the different dialects [...] as one who had been conversant with them all.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Concerned; occupied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
One who converses with another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: interlocutor, conversational partner
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Old French conversant, present participle of converser.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сведущ (svedušt) — familiar
- Bulgarian: осведомен (osvedomen) — familiar
- Bulgarian: компетентен (kompetenten) — familiar
- Dutch: vertrouwd — familiar
- Finnish: tuttu — familiar
- French: à l'aise — familiar
- German: vertraut — familiar
- Hebrew: בקיא (baqy) — familiar
- Plautdietsch: bewaundat — familiar
- Russian: знако́мый (znakómyj) — familiar
- Russian: све́дущий (svéduščij) — familiar
- Russian: осведомлённый (osvedomljónnyj) — familiar
- Russian: компете́нтный (kompeténtnyj) — familiar
- Spanish: versado — familiar
- Swedish: förtrogen — familiar