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US
/kənˈvɝsənt/
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[ UK /kənvˈɜːsənt/ ]
[ UK /kənvˈɜːsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
conversant with business trends
familiar with the complex machinery
he was familiar with those roads
How To Use conversant In A Sentence
- Staff members are conversant with the issues.
- But because conscience is a relative term, and so must refer to something which it is to be conversant about, I shall shew, that men are commanded a subjection to, and dehorted from a resistance of the civil magistrate, by two things. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
- Nelson was engaging, pleasant, and nicely conversant with the psychologist.
- Both driver and staff working at the operating centre need to be fully conversant with effective maintenance procedures.
- I was unconversant with the altitudes and energies of sentiment, and was transfixed with inexplicable horror by the symptoms which I now beheld. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
- There, individuals who are accustomed to, say, the metric system must also be conversant with the imperial system now embattled even in the kingdom of its formerly eponymous empire, Britain pretty much solely for the purpose of taking the American test. The English Is Coming!
- Roman, Arabian, and Syrian; and he was skilled in astronomy and in leechcraft, the theorick as well as the practick; he was experienced in all that healeth and that hurteth the body; conversant with the virtues of every plant, grass and herb, and their benefit and bane; and he understood philosophy and had compassed the whole range of medical science and other branches of the knowledge tree. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Most of my working life was as a sales representative for a major insurer covering the majority of the county so I am fairly well conversant with the area.
- Internal evidence also suggests that he was a Benedictine monk and priest who was both educated and conversant with scholastic philosophy.
- Conversant with speculations of the sublimest and most perfect natures, the vision in which he embodies his own imaginations unites all of wonderful or wise or beautiful, which the poet, the philosopher or the lover could depicture. Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude