converse

verb

1. (formal, intransitive)To talk; to engage in conversation.

   “Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together.”

   “We had conversed so often on that subject.”

2. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.

   “To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.”

   “But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.”

   “Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.”

3. (obsolete)To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

   “according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety”

noun

1. (literary, uncountable)Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

   “Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]”

   “[R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.”

   “She had around her gay converse, in which she had no share; and laughter, in which she was little tempted to join.”

   “In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse.”

   “[S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.”

2. The opposite or reverse.
3. Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

   “All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.”

4. One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
5. Synonym of transpose.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.

   “a converse proposition”

name

1. A surname.
2. A shoe of an American-based brand of that name.