chat
/tʃæt/
EN
An informal, casual conversation, typically between people; also, an online text-based conversation between users.
We had a nice chat over coffee yesterday.
Etymology
Derived from the 16th-century verb 'chatter', meaning to talk quickly or continuously about unimportant things. It gained the sense of informal casual conversation in the 18th century, and later took on the online communication meaning in the late 20th century.
Translations
Collocations
group chatlive chatcasual chatchat roomonline chat
Antonyms
silencemonologuelecture
Related Words
messagediscussionchatroommessagingconversation