Clues for the word "DISCOURSE"

We've had 21 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 20 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on April 17, 2026.

Definition of discourse

n. - The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
n. - Conversation; talk.
n. - The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
n. - Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
n. - Dealing; transaction.
v. i. - To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
v. i. - To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
v. i. - To relate something; to tell.
v. i. - To treat of something in writing and formally.
v. t. - To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
v. t. - To utter or give forth; to speak.
v. t. - To talk to; to confer with.