chat
[chat]
- to converse in a familiar or informal manner.
- Digital Technology. to participate with one or more people, through the Internet, in a real-time conversation, typically as a series of short text exchanges in a specific application, as instant messaging, or by using images, voice, video, or some combination of these: The kids were able to chat with their grandma online. Join our online community to chat about TV shows.
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- informal conversation: We had a pleasant chat.
- Digital Technology. a real-time conversation, as between two or more people or between a representative of a business and a customer, over the Internet or other network: Join our free video chat.See also instant messaging, chat room.
- any of several small Old World thrushes, especially of the genus Saxicola, having a chattering cry.
- yellow-breasted chat.
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- Digital Technology. noting or relating to an online chat: a chat session.
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- chat up, Chiefly British.
- to talk flirtatiously with.
- to talk to in a friendly, open way.
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Origin of chat
Synonyms
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Examples from the Web for chatted
Contemporary Examples
He chatted with them, and they eventually sent him the first few scripts.
Charles Dance on Tywin Lannister’s S5 Return, A ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie,’ and Sexy Peter DinklageMarlow Stern
November 18, 2014
In one of the moments I chatted briefly with him he made a quip about my work that my mother still quotes to this day.
We chatted with Samberg about all of that, bad wedding toasts, Billy Joel karaoke, and more.
We chatted about the crazy rehearsal process and how much dancing you do all day.
Baffled by the jargon-heavy consumer information manual, I chatted with Cheryl Luptowski from the NSF consumer affairs office.
Historical Examples
I remarked one evening, as I chatted with Marguerite and her chaperone.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings
We sat and chatted a while, and then Clara and I went out to look at the Jungfrau.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
And so, over this collation, we chatted for quite all of an hour.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
We chatted for a time of home politics, which was, of course, in a wretched state.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
And with that they chatted about the marriage from the male point of view.
chat1
- informal conversation or talk conducted in an easy familiar manner
- the exchange of messages in an internet or other network chatroom
- any Old World songbird of the subfamily Turdinae (thrushes, etc) having a harsh chattering crySee also stonechat, whinchat
- any of various North American warblers, such as Icteria virens (yellow-breasted chat)
- any of various Australian wrens (family Muscicapidae) of the genus Ephthianura and other genera
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- to talk in an easy familiar way
- to exchange messages in a chatroom
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See also chat up
Word Origin
C16: short for chatter
chat2
- archaic, or dialect a catkin, esp a willow catkin
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Word Origin
C15: from French chat cat, referring to the furry appearance
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Word Origin and History for chatted
chat
n.
1520s, "chatter, frivolous talk;" see chat (v.). Meaning "familiar conversation" is from 1570s. Chat show, for what in U.S. is a talk show, attested from 1969. Chat room in the online sense is attested by 1994, from the days when AOL ruled the Web.
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chat
v.
mid-15c., "talk idly, babble," short for chatter (v.). Meaning "to converse familiarly" is from 1550s. Sense of "flirt with, ingratiate oneself with" (in later use often with up (adv.)) is from 1898. Related: Chatted; chatting.
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