Meaning & use
chat
To talk in an informal, friendly way about ordinary or unimportant topics.
See it in a sentence
The neighbors chatted over the fence about the weather and their gardens.
We chatted online for an hour before finally arranging to meet in person.
A note on using this word
Chat is casual and friendly in tone, and it now extends naturally to typed conversation, as in an online chat or a chat app.
Words with a similar meaning
conversetalk
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Another way to use it
2. noun
An informal conversation, or a feature that allows typed messaging.
We had a quick chat about the weekend before the meeting officially started.
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