Meaning of colloquy in English
- Before the colloquy had ended, the minister's attention was attracted by a second incident.
- He appeared to be in earnest colloquy with a man whose bulk matched his own.
- She glanced, with eyes that were unusually conscious, to right and left of her, to see if the neighbors had noticed their colloquy.
- The reporter and the caretaker were making no progress in their colloquy and Dan was trying to catch a glimpse of the other man, who leaned against the wall quite indifferent to the struggle for the door.
- There was a brisk colloquy between the two.
Examples of colloquy
colloquy
We need more interdisciplinary consultation, more colloquy across professional boundaries, and more respect for the apprenticeships of scholars in disciplines other than our own.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The most difficult parts of the colloquy centered on a small number of issues.
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Their colloquy was commonplace mostly, and need not be quoted; but some things then done we shall notice.
From Project Gutenberg
The discharge of freight had not ceased during this colloquy.
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I do not wish to prolong the discussion, nor to spin it out into a colloquy.
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But their colloquy was interrupted just here by a sound of footsteps and the approach of a light, which set the whole ward raving again.
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The besieged, whose sleep had been fitful, had all been aroused by the colloquy, and they crowded to the front of the barricade.
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He went to the door and a low-voiced colloquy ensued.
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A quail called in a field of early wheat, and was answered from a thicket of elderberry near at hand--a charmingly intimate colloquy.
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A colloquy is indefinite as to number, and generally somewhat informal.
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The young engineer was not so deeply engrossed in his work as to be deaf to the colloquy.
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He appeared to be in earnest colloquy with a man whose bulk matched his own.
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Then that too ceased, and dimly came the sounds of a muffled colloquy; a sort of gurgling talk that got me wondering.
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They are not exhalations like our daily colloquies and vaporous breath.
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To stay their stomachs against a protracted search, for their colloquies sat late, they ordered a plentiful dinner to be placed before them.
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