le
/dja.lɔɡ/
Translation
dialogue, conversation
Word origin
From Greek dialogos, from dia- ('through, between') and logos ('speech, word'). English monologue and logic share the logos half of the same root.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- dialogos
- English cognates
- monologue, logic
Grammar
Examples
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Dialogue between the two countries has improved.
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This film is carried mainly by its dialogue.
, désaccord.
You have to keep talking, even when you disagree.
Used both concretely, the lines of speech in a book or film (les dialogues du roman), and abstractly, the ongoing exchange between two sides who need to keep talking (le dialogue social, industrial relations between employers and unions). The abstract sense is more common in the news than the everyday sense.
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