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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONVERSANT, a. [See Converse.]
1. Keeping company; having frequent or customary intercourse; intimately associating; familiar by fellowship or cohabitation; acquainted.
But the men were very good to us--as long as we were conversant with them. 2 Samuel 25.
Never to be infected with delight, nor conversant with ease and idleness.
2. Acquainted by familiar use or study. We correct our style, and improve our taste, by being conversant with the best classical writers. In the foregoing applications, this word is most generally followed by with, according to present usage. In was formerly used; and both in and among may be used.
3. Concerning; having concern, or relation to; having for its object; followed by about.
Education is conversant about children.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; "conversant with business trends"; "familiar with the complex machinery"; "he was familiar with those roads" [syn: conversant, familiar]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. archaic having frequent or familiar association 2. archaic concerned, occupied 3. having knowledge or experience — used with with

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (foll. by with) well experienced or acquainted with a subject, person, etc. Derivatives: conversance n. conversancy n. Etymology: ME f. OF, pres. part. of converser CONVERSE(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conversant Con*vers"ant, n. One who converses with another; a convenser. [R.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conversant Con"ver*sant, a. [L. conversans, p. pr. of conversari: cf. F. conversant.] 1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. --Dryden. 2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. --Dryden. he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. --Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. --Cowper. 3. Concerned; occupied. Education . . . is conversant about children. --W. Wotton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it. (FORMAL) Those in business are not, on the whole, conversant with basic scientific principles. ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kon-vur'-sant (halakh, "to go on," "to walk"): This word is translated "conversant" in Jos 8:35 the King James Version (margin "walked"), and 1Sa 25:15 the King James Version meaning "going along with them;" the American Standard Revised Version "went."

Moby Thesaurus

abreast, accomplished, acquainted, acquainted with, alive, apprehending, apprehensive, at concert pitch, at home in, at home with, au courant, au fait, awake, career, coached, cognizant, comprehending, conscious, conversant with, familiar with, finished, informed, informed in, initiate, initiated, intimate with, knowing, master of, no stranger to, perceptive, percipient, practiced, prepared, primed, professional, proficient in, sensible, sentient, skilled, strong in, technical, trained, up, up on, up-to-date, used to, versed, versed in, well-read in, witting