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discourse is a noun and verb meaning "extended verbal expression in speech or writing". It carries 6 recorded senses.
extended verbal expression in speech or writing
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
church service
an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
“the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic”
“his treatment of the race question is badly biased”
to consider or examine in speech or writing
“The author talks about the different aspects of this question”
“The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'”
carry on a conversation
talk at length and formally about a topic
“The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for discourse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.