conversational partner

1. 1.

   a person who takes part in a conversation

   Synonymsinterlocutor

   Broaderconversationalist

Questions about conversational partner

What does conversational partner mean?

conversational partner means "a person who takes part in a conversation".

What is another word for conversational partner?

Close synonyms include interlocutor. 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 conversational partner a common word?

conversational partner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.