1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
Conversation; talk.
3. Noun
The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
4. Noun
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.
5. Noun
Dealing; transaction.
6. Verb
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
7. Verb
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.
8. Verb
To relate something; to tell.
9. Verb
To treat of something in writing and formally.
10. Verb
To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
11. Verb
To utter or give forth; to speak.
12. Verb
To talk to; to confer with.
13. Noun
Connected language as it is used in a conversation, text or social setting.
Language considered beyond the sentence level and within its social or communicative context.
“The analysis examined political discourse.”
14. Noun
an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
15. Noun
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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