Causerie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Causerie \Cause`rie"\, n. [F., fr. causer to chat.]
     Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light
     conversation; chat.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  causerie
       n : light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: {chitchat},
            {small talk}, {gab}, {gabfest}, {gossip}, {tittle-tattle},
            {chin-wag}, {chin-wagging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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