• (RP) IPA: /ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡ/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/

dialogue

1. A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.

   Bill and Melinda maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.

   Start up a dialogue

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 200 ↗:

     Guido and Francesca exchanged looks; for the attention with which both had listened had enabled them to comprehend with tolerable accuracy the preceding dialogue.

2. (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.

   The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.

3. (philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.

   A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.

4. (computing, nonstandard)

   Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.

• dialect
• dialectic
• dialectical
• dialectically

• dialogical
• dialogicality
• dialogically
• dialogistic
• dialogistical
• dialogistically

• French: dialogue, conversation
• German: Dialog, Gespräch
• Italian: dialogo, conversazione, discorso
• Portuguese: diálogo, conversa, conversação
• Russian: диало́г
• Spanish: diálogo, conversación

• Portuguese: diálogo
• Russian: диало́г

• Portuguese: diálogo
• Russian: диало́г

dialogue (dialogues, present participle dialoguing; simple past and past participle dialogued)

1. (informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.

   Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.

2. (transitive) To put into dialogue form.
3. (obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii], page [55] ↗:

     Dost [thou] dialogue with thy shadow?

• French: dialoguer
• German: diskutieren, sich unterhalten, sich aussprechen, sich austauschen, verhandeln, eine offene Aussprache führen, einen Dialog führen; with oneself or someone not present: Zwiesprache halten
• Portuguese: dialogar
• Spanish: dialogar