Banter vs. Conversation

Banternoun

Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

Conversationnoun

(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.

Banterverb

(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.

Conversationnoun

(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.

Banterverb

(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.

Conversationnoun

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Banterverb

(transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.

Conversationnoun

(obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.; understanding, familiarity.

Banterverb

(transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).

Conversationnoun

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.

‘I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.’;

Banterverb

(transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.

Conversationnoun

(fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

Banterverb

To challenge to a match.

Conversationnoun

(computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.

Banterverb

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, - the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

‘Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.’;

Conversationverb

To engage in conversation (with).

Banterverb

To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

‘If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.’;

Conversationnoun

General course of conduct; behavior.

‘Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.’;

Banterverb

To delude or trick, - esp. by way of jest.

‘We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.’;

Conversationnoun

Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.

‘I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.’;

Banterverb

To challenge or defy to a match.

Conversationnoun

Commerce; intercourse; traffic.

‘All traffic and mutual conversation.’;

Banternoun

The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

‘Part banter, part affection.’;

Conversationnoun

Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.

‘The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.’;

Banternoun

light teasing repartee

Conversationnoun

Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

Banterverb

be silly or tease one another;

‘After we relaxed, we just kidded around’;

Conversationnoun

the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

Banternoun

the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

‘there was much good-natured banter’;

Conversationnoun

a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged

‘she picked up the phone and held a conversation in French’; ‘the two men were deep in conversation’;

Banterverb

exchange remarks in a good-humoured teasing way

‘the men bantered with the waitresses’;

Conversation

Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization.