"conversationist" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "conversation",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "conversation + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "conversation + -ist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conversationists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "conversationist (plural conversationists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ist",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Lives of Girls Who Became Famous",
          "text": "Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia",
          "text": "BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote \"Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity,\" \"Lectures on the Atomic Theory,\" and two volumes of \"Essays, Scientific and Literary\" (1817-1856).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, Various, International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,",
          "text": "[A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone skilled in the art of conversation."
      ],
      "id": "en-conversationist-en-noun-0t1qHbEw",
      "links": [
        [
          "conversation",
          "conversation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "conversationist"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "conversation",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "conversation + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "conversation + -ist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conversationists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "conversationist (plural conversationists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ist",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Lives of Girls Who Became Famous",
          "text": "Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia",
          "text": "BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote \"Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity,\" \"Lectures on the Atomic Theory,\" and two volumes of \"Essays, Scientific and Literary\" (1817-1856).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, Various, International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,",
          "text": "[A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone skilled in the art of conversation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conversation",
          "conversation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "conversationist"
}