General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.
Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. "Conversation with the best company." Dryden. I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.
Commerce; intercourse; traffic. [Obs.] All traffic and mutual conversation. Hakluyt.
Colloqual discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay.
Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
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