"small talk" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-small talk.ogg
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} small talk (uncountable)
  1. (idiomatic) Idle conversation, typically on innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness. Tags: idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms: small-talk, smalltalk, pleasantries, foretalk, chatter (english: meaningless types) Synonyms (idle conversation): chit-chat Derived forms: Smalltalk, small-talker Related terms: big talk, happy talk Translations (idle conversation): كَلَام خَفِيف (kalām ḵafīf) [masculine] (Arabic), مُحَادَثَة خَفِيفَة (muḥādaṯa ḵafīfa) [feminine] (Arabic), xerrameca [feminine] (Catalan), garleries [feminine, plural] (Catalan), 閑談 /闲谈 (xiántán) (Chinese Mandarin), 聊天 (liáotiān) (Chinese Mandarin), 寒暄 (hánxuān) (Chinese Mandarin), tlachání [neuter] (Czech), nezávazná konverzace [feminine] (Czech), praatje [neuter] (Dutch), koetjes en kalfjes [neuter, plural, singular] (Dutch), lichte conversatie [feminine] (Dutch), rupattelu (Finnish), jutustelu (Finnish), small talk (Finnish), papotage [masculine] (French), bavardage [masculine] (French), parola [feminine] (Galician), leria [feminine] (Galician), Alltagsgespräch [neuter] (German), Plauderei [feminine] (German), Smalltalk [masculine, neuter] (German), Plaudern [neuter] (German), belangloses Gespräch [neuter] (German), belanglose Unterhaltung [feminine] (German), סמול טוק (smól tok) [masculine] (Hebrew), terefere (Hungarian), társalgás (Hungarian), rabb (Icelandic), mas (Icelandic), cabaireacht [feminine] (Irish), mionchomhrá [masculine] (Irish), chiacchiera [feminine] (Italian), 雑談 (zatsudan) (alt: ざつだん) (Japanese), 世間話 (sekembanashi) (alt: せけんばなし) (Japanese), 잡담 (japdam) (Korean), 한담 (handam) (Korean), sermunculus [masculine] (Latin), tūtara (Maori), småprat [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), småprat [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), small talk [masculine] (Polish), conversa fiada [masculine] (Portuguese), лёгкая бесе́да (ljóxkaja beséda) [feminine] (Russian), све́тский разгово́р (svétskij razgovór) [masculine] (Russian), charla [feminine] (Spanish), palique [masculine] (Spanish), cháchara [feminine] (Spanish), teque [masculine] (Spanish), charloteo [masculine] (Spanish), kallprat [neuter] (Swedish), småprat [neuter] (Swedish), mân siarad [masculine] (Welsh)

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          "sense": "idle conversation",
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    {
      "word": "big talk"
    },
    {
      "word": "happy talk"
    }
  ],
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        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations",
        "en:Talking"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 134:",
          "text": "[T]o the credit of the lady it may be added, that […] without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, P. G. Wodehouse, Misunderstood:",
          "text": "If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 June 10, John Cloud, “Michael Jackson 1958–2009”, in Time:",
          "text": "Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Idle conversation, typically on innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Idle",
          "idle"
        ],
        [
          "conversation",
          "conversation"
        ],
        [
          "innocuous",
          "innocuous"
        ],
        [
          "unimportant",
          "unimportant"
        ],
        [
          "politeness",
          "politeness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Idle conversation, typically on innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "small-talk"
    },
    {
      "word": "smalltalk"
    },
    {
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "chit-chat"
    },
    {
      "word": "pleasantries"
    },
    {
      "word": "foretalk"
    },
    {
      "english": "meaningless types",
      "word": "chatter"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kalām ḵafīf",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "كَلَام خَفِيف"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "muḥādaṯa ḵafīfa",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "مُحَادَثَة خَفِيفَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "xerrameca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "garleries"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiántán",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "閑談 /闲谈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "liáotiān",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "聊天"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hánxuān",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "寒暄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tlachání"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nezávazná konverzace"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "praatje"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "koetjes en kalfjes"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lichte conversatie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "rupattelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "jutustelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "small talk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "papotage"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bavardage"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parola"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leria"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Alltagsgespräch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Plauderei"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Smalltalk"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Plaudern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "belangloses Gespräch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "belanglose Unterhaltung"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "smól tok",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "סמול טוק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "terefere"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "társalgás"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "rabb"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "mas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cabaireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mionchomhrá"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chiacchiera"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ざつだん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zatsudan",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "雑談"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せけんばなし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sekembanashi",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "世間話"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "japdam",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "잡담"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "handam",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "한담"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sermunculus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "word": "tūtara"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "småprat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "småprat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "small talk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "conversa fiada"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ljóxkaja beséda",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лёгкая бесе́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svétskij razgovór",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "све́тский разгово́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "charla"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "palique"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cháchara"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teque"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "charloteo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kallprat"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "småprat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "idle conversation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mân siarad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "small talk"
}

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