CONVERSANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conversant mean? 

• CONVERSANT (adjective)
  The adjective CONVERSANT has 1 sense:

1. (usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly

  Familiarity information: CONVERSANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVERSANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly

Synonyms:

conversant; familiar

Context example:

he was familiar with those roads

Similar:

informed (having much knowledge or education)

Derivation:

conversance; conversancy (personal knowledge or information about someone or something)

 Context examples 

Their ideas are perpetually conversant in lines and figures.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“My sister Lavinia,” said she “being conversant with matters of this nature, will state what we consider most calculated to promote the happiness of both parties.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Still, at the time of that January 24-25 new moon, Mars, the action planet, was beautifully conversant with communicative Mercury.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I was sufficiently conversant with Holmes’s methods to be able to follow his reasoning, and to see that the nature and state of the various medical instruments in the wicker basket which hung in the lamplight inside the brougham had given him the data for his swift deduction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be, continued he; asked more questions about the house, and terms, and taxes, than the Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with business; and moreover, Sir Walter, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country, any more than her husband; that is to say, she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once; she told me so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back at Monkford.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)