Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being conversant; familiarity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being conversant; familiarity; familiar intercourse or acquaintance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
conversant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun personal knowledge or information about someone or something
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Examples
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These are tough, Irish and Italian working-class towns, and anybody who claimed any kind of conversance with Emerson was an alien immediately.
Why Read? 2004
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The requirements include a minimum of 20 years of hands-on experience in the washing and finishing of hand-knotted carpets, 30 years 'experience in carpet management production, carpet experience in post-conflict regions, a minimum of 50 business relationships with high-end retailers in Europe and North America -- and conversance in French, German and Turkish.
U.S. set to award $1 million contract to expand the market for Afghan carpets 2010
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Given the fact that the newspaper routinely printed stories about its fellow citizens that had only a passing conversance with the truth, no one was entirely certain that the brash young stranger had not come around looking for satisfaction.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The requirements include a minimum of 20 years of hands-on experience in the washing and finishing of hand-knotted carpets, 30 years 'experience in carpet management production, carpet experience in post-conflict regions, a minimum of 50 business relationships with high-end retailers in Europe and North America -- and conversance in French, German and Turkish.
U.S. set to award $1 million contract to expand the market for Afghan carpets 2010
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Given the fact that the newspaper routinely printed stories about its fellow citizens that had only a passing conversance with the truth, no one was entirely certain that the brash young stranger had not come around looking for satisfaction.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The requirements include a minimum of 20 years of hands-on experience in the washing and finishing of hand-knotted carpets, 30 years 'experience in carpet management production, carpet experience in post-conflict regions, a minimum of 50 business relationships with high-end retailers in Europe and North America -- and conversance in French, German and Turkish.
U.S. set to award $1 million contract to expand the market for Afghan carpets 2010
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A little less American Eagle and a little more geopolitical conversance would be a good start for the protestors.
American Militarism and Le donne di Vicenza | Jewschool 2007
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Since Ms. Farhi's conversance with Iran is partly a result of living and working there for a time, we asked her if she thought Iranians were in denial.
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Our conversance and disagreement now needs just few âtype-insâ ™ and âclicksâ ™ to be put across.
Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core: Official Google Voice App Blocked From App Store Jason Kincaid 2005
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Miss Karpe, whose conversance with the details of travelling I envy, mounted her horse on her own side-saddle, dressed in a short grey waterproof, and a broad-brimmed Leghorn hat tied so tightly over her ears with a green veil as to give it the look of a double spout.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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