chat

1. 1.

   talk socially without exchanging too much information

   “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

   Synonymschew the fatshoot the breezeconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatterchaffernattergossipjawclavervisit

   Broaderconverse

   Narrowershmooze

Other forms of chat

plural

chats·

past tense or participle

chatted

present participle

chatting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chat

What does chat mean?

chat means "an informal conversation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chat?

chat has 1 syllable: chat. In IPA it is /ˈtʃæt/.

What is another word for chat?

Close synonyms include confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose, New World chat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chat a common word?

chat is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chat?

1 word rhymes with chat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.