chat
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chatterder.
English chat
Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Inflected forms:
form: chats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chatted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be engaged in informal conversation.
pos: verb
examples: She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
gloss: To talk more than a few words.
pos: verb
examples: I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
gloss: To talk of; to discuss.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They chatted politics for a while.
We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
gloss: To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
pos: verb
tags: informal
often
slang
examples: Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
examples: Do you want to chat online later?
gloss: Informal conversation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
gloss: An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Internet Relay Chat
gloss: A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
gloss: A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
metonymically
uncountable
examples: The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
"Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"
Chat, is this prime minister serious?
gloss: A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
countable
humorous
nonstandard
uncountable
gloss: Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.
pos: intj
tags: humorous
informal
examples: Chat, is this real?
Synonyms: visit
Derived words: chat away
chatline
chat shit
chat show
chat up
chat-up line
chop and chat
live-chat
backchat
back-chat
back chat
bechat
chatathon
chatbot
chatbox
chatfest
chat fiction
ChatGPT
chatgroup
chat group
chathead
chatiquette
chatless
chatlog
chatmate
chatroom
chat-room
chat site
chatspace
chatspeak
chatteration
chatterer
chatterish
chattily
chattiness
chatty
chat-tyrant
chatwood
chitchat
chit-chat
chit chat
cyberchat
e-chat
enter the chat
F in the chat
fireside chat
group chat
hot chat
Internet Relay Chat
leave the chat
L in the chat
midchat
Snapchat
vidchat
video chat
webchat
web chat
W in the chat
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ра́зговор
roman: rázgovor
lang: Bulgarian
word: бесе́да
roman: beséda
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 談話 /谈话
roman: tánhuà
lang: Dutch
word: gesprek
lang: Dutch
word: babbel
lang: Esperanto
word: babilado
lang: Finnish
word: keskustelu
lang: French
word: discussion
lang: German
word: Gespräch
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: prat
lang: Portuguese
word: conversa
lang: Russian
word: разгово́р
roman: razgovór
lang: Russian
word: бесе́да
roman: beséda
lang: Swedish
word: samtal
lang: Bulgarian
word: чат
roman: čat
lang: Esperanto
word: ĉiuj
lang: Russian
word: чат
roman: čat
lang: Turkish
word: çet