conversazione

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a formal social gathering devoted to discussion of literature, art, science, or another learned subject

   The museum held a conversazione at which researchers demonstrated their new instruments.

2. 2
   noun

   a social gathering for conversation, music, or other cultural entertainment

   Guests moved between recitals and animated discussion at the evening conversazione.

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from Italian conversazione, 'conversation' or 'social gathering,' from Latin conversatio. English specialized the loan for learned or cultured evening assemblies.

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