chat

Meaning

Verb

1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
2. To talk more than a few words.
3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
4. (informal, often, slang) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
5. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
2. (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
3. (Internet, uncountable) A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
4. (Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable) A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
5. (Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, nonstandard, uncountable) A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
6. (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
7. (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

Noun

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Noun

Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

Noun

A louse (small, parasitic insect).

Noun

Alternative form of chaat.

Synonyms

talk

🗣️

converse

conversation

gossip

speak

🗣️

chatter

discourse

discuss

babble

chitchat

confab

discussion

jaw

confabulate

natter

confabulation

story

shmooze

tell

prattle

jabber

chaffer

speech

causerie

visit

claver

have a conversation

shoot the breeze

colloquy

dialogue

schmoose

schmooze

chew the fat

small talk

Old World chat

gabble

gab

idle talk

say

🗣️

chit-chat

argue

ramble on

utter

words

talk over

state

chin

declare

blab

rumors

Translations

causer

plaudern

converser

bavarder

charlar

causerie

conversation

schwatzen

chiacchierare

praten

🗣️

parler

🗣️

babbelen

bavardage

kletsen

spreken

🗣️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃæt/

Etymology

Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.