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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- Casual or trivial conversation.
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Wiktionary (1 definition)
- Idle banter, typically on innocuous or unimportant subjects, made to open conversations, usually out of politeness.
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GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)
- light or trifling conversation; chitchat.
WordNet (1 definition)
- Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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- We see him of an evening vagabonding among the nameless common folk of Rome, engaging in small talk with dealers in small merchandise.—Horace and His Influence
- The truth is, that just as the iambics of Greek drama were lifted above ordinary conversation, so Shakespeare's language, being the language mainly of poetic and romantic drama, is a little more measured and, if you will, more pompous than the small talk of everyday life, which seems to us, accustomed as we are to prose plays, more natural.—The Man Shakespeare
- So here is a plot for a play: a tale of self-sacrifice and loyalty on the part of two women that puts to shame much small talk we hear from small men concerning the fickleness and selfishness of woman's love.—Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
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