Usually means: Communication of thoughts through language.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. discourse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discourse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discourse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discourse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discourse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discourse, discourse: Wordnik
  7. discourse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discourse: Wiktionary
  9. discourse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discourse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discourse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discourse, discourse: Dictionary.com
  13. discourse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. discourse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Discourse (disambiguation), Discourse (linguistics), Discourse (software), Discourse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Discourse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. discourse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. discourse: Rhymezone
  19. Discourse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. discourse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. discourse: Free Dictionary
  22. discourse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. discourse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. discourse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discourse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discourse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. discourse: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Discourse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discourse: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See discoursed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
noun:  (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
noun:  (countable) A conversation.
noun:  (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
noun:  (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
noun:  (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
noun:  (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
verb:  (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
verb:  To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

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