N. conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, paul pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, "the feast of reason and the flow of soul", mollia tempora fandi

V. talk together, converse, confabulate, hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation, put in a word, shine in conversation, bandy words, parley, palaver, chat, gossip, tattle, prate, powwow, discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with, hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse, talk it over, be closeted with, talk with one in private, tete-a-tete

Adj. conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial

Phr. "with thee conversing i forget all time"

N. council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, m, p, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder

V. assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage) 72, confer, caucus, hold council, huddle

Adj. senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative

N. tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory, court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court, inquisition, guild, justice seat, judgment seat, mercy seat, woolsack, bar of justice, dock, forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead, jury box, witness box, senate house, town hall, theater, house of commons, house of lords, statehouse, townhouse, assize, eyre, wardmote, burghmote, barmote, superior courts of westminster, court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error, high court of judicature, high court of appeal, judicial committee of the privy council, star chamber, court of chancery, court of king's or queen's bench, court of exchequer, court of common pleas, court of probate, court of arches, court of admiralty, lords justices' court, rolls court, vice chancellor's court, stannary court, divorce court, family court, palatine court, county court, district court, police court, sessions, quarter sessions, petty sessions, court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council, board of green cloth, court martial, drumhead court martial, durbar, divan, areopagus, irota

Adj. judicial, appellate

Phr. die weltgeschichte ist das weltgericht