"conversationist" meaning in English

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          "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.",
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          "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).",
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          "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.",
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        "Someone skilled in the art of conversation."
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