CHAT (chatted, chatting)

Pronunciation (US):

• CHAT (noun)
  The noun CHAT has 3 senses:

1. an informal conversation
2. birds having a chattering call
3. songbirds having a chattering call

  Familiarity information: CHAT used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHAT (verb)
  The verb CHAT has 1 sense:

1. talk socially without exchanging too much information

  Familiarity information: CHAT used as a verb is very rare.

• CHAT (noun)

Meaning:

An informal conversation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

schmooze; schmoose; confabulation; confab; chat

Hypernyms ("chat" is a kind of...):

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chat"):

causerie; chin-wag; chin-wagging; chitchat; gab; gabfest; gossip; small talk; tittle-tattle (light informal conversation for social occasions)

Meaning:

Birds having a chattering call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

New World chat; chat

Hypernyms ("chat" is a kind of...):

New World warbler; wood warbler (small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chat"):

Icteria virens; yellow-breasted chat (American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds)

Holonyms ("chat" is a member of...):

genus Icteria; Icteria (New World chats)

Meaning:

Songbirds having a chattering call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Old World chat; chat

Hypernyms ("chat" is a kind of...):

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chat"):

Saxicola torquata; stonechat (common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast)

Saxicola rubetra; whinchat (brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows)

Holonyms ("chat" is a member of...):

genus Saxicola; Saxicola (Old World chats)

• CHAT (verb)

Meaning:

Talk socially without exchanging too much information

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

jaw; confab; claver; chitchat; chew the fat; shoot the breeze; chat; natter; confabulate; gossip; chaffer; chatter; visit

Context example:

the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Hypernyms (to "chat" is one way to...):

converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chat"):

jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue chat
Sam wants to chat with Sue