English noun: dialog | |||
1. | dialog (communication) a conversation between two persons | ||
Synonyms | dialogue, duologue | ||
Broader (hypernym) | talk, talking | ||
2. | dialog (communication) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | ||
Synonyms | dialogue | ||
Broader (hypernym) | book, playscript, script | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | duologue | ||
Part holonym | actor's line, speech, words | ||
3. | dialog (communication) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | ||
Samples | He has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek. | ||
Synonyms | dialogue | ||
Broader (hypernym) | literary composition, literary work | ||