dialogue – English noun declension

English noun forms of dialogue

Noun: dialogue
Singulardialogue
Pluraldialogues

Sample Sentences

  • Melinda and Bill maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.
  • Start up a dialogue
  • Guido and Francesca exchanged looks; for the attention with which both had listened had enabled them to comprehend with tolerable accuracy the preceding 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:]
  • The hours of dialogue with Winfrey, which culminated in a choked-up moment on Friday night as he discussed the impact of his cheating on his family, appear to have failed to give Armstrong the redemption that he craves. [2013 January 19, Paul Harris, The Guardian:]
  • The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.
  • In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films." [2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42:]
  • A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • Additionally, juxtaposition introduces the potential for a multivocal approach to academic writing, with juxtaposed texts in dialogue with one another, thus enabling linguistic and modal variety (Lillis, 2011). [2015 November 4, Theresa Lillis, Kathy Harrington, Working with Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice, Parlor Press LLC, →ISBN, page 321:]
  • Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”), equivalent to dia- (“between”) + -logue. Also analyzable as di- (“two”) + -alogue. See: Middle English Nouns 'dialog', Middle English Nouns 'dialog', Ancient Greek Nouns 'διάλογος'.

Verbs referencing "dialogue"

Finnish Nouns dialogi.