Vocabulary
Discourse
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
written or spoken communication or debate.
Urdu meaning
بیان، تقریر کرنا، اظہار خیال، گفتگو
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Mahmoud Abbas, nine years older than the 80-yearold UN, denied a US visa, appeared on video link at the Saudi-French circus, and devoted much of his discourse to dissing Hamas.
- Could there be a more poignant illustration of the state of global political discourse and democracy today?
- Which is why it`s necessary to go beyond the shallow nature of what we call `public discourse`.
- That Israel spied on the US and at least on one occasion attacked a US spy ship in the Mediterranean during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, killing dozens of US troops, is mostly airbrushed from public discourse.
- The HRCP has warned that the drift towards institutional intimidation is likely to prompt selfcensorship, fracturing public discourse.
Synonyms
discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, communication, conference, debate
Curator example
“the language of political discourse”
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