causerie

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cau=se=rie

CIDE DICTIONARY

causerie, n. [F., fr. causer to chat.].

 Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

causerie, n. (pl. causeries pronunc. same) an informal article or talk, esp. on a literary subject.

Etymology

F f. causer talk

THESAURUS

causerie

article, chat, chin, coze, cozy chat, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exposition, feature, first approach, friendly chat, gam, heart-to-heart talk, homily, introductory study, little talk, lucubration, memoir, monograph, morceau, note, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, piece, preliminary study, prolegomenon, prose, rap, research paper, screed, sketch, special article, study, survey, talk, term paper, tete-a-tete, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment, visit, yarn

ROGET THESAURUS

causerie

Conversation

N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.