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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 con·ver·sa·tion /ˌkɑnvɚ/
 C會話,談話;U會話,談話

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 conversation
 交談

From: Network Terminology

 conversation
 交談 對話

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·ver·sa·tion n.
 1. General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic]
    Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.   --Philip. i. 27.
 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. Conversation with the best company.”
    I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.   --Bacon.
 3. Commerce; intercourse; traffic. [Obs.]
    All traffic and mutual conversation.   --Hakluyt.
 4. Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
    The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.   --Macaulay.
 5. Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
 Syn: -- Intercourse; communion; commerce; familiarity; discourse; dialogue; colloquy; talk; chat.
 Usage: -- Conversation, Talk. There is a looser sense of these words, in which they are synonymous; there is a stricter sense, in which they differ. Talk is usually broken, familiar, and versatile. Conversation is more continuous and sustained, and turns ordinarily upon topics or higher interest. Children talk to their parents or to their companions; men converse together in mixed assemblies. Dr. Johnson once remarked, of an evening spent in society, that there had been a great deal of talk, but no conversation.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 conversation
      n : the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or
          information etc.

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Conversation
    generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph. 2:3;
    4:22; R.V., "manner of life"); one's deportment or course of
    life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of
    verbal communication from one to another (Ps. 50:23; Heb. 13:5).
    In Phil. 1:27 and 3:20, a different Greek word is used. It there
    means one's relations to a community as a citizen, i.e.,
    citizenship.