English Dictionary

discourse

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɪskɔː(ɹ)s/

名詞

古語 不可算名詞 可算名詞 廃用

(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation. / (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing. / (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.

日本語の意味

（不可算、古語）口頭でのやりとり、会話 / （不可算）言葉による表現、口頭または筆記による発言 / （可算）ある主題に関する正式で詳細な説明、講演または論説

At the candlelit table, their discourse ranged from trivial gossip to solemn philosophy.

蝋燭の灯るテーブルで、彼らの会話は些細な噂話から厳粛な哲学の議論まで及んだ。

意味（1）

(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.

UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew. And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe, Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]

意味（2）

(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

意味（3）

(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.

The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

意味（4）

(countable) Any rational expression, reason.

difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason

意味（5）

(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).

Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Dealing; transaction.

Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse / Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how / We got the victory.

discourses （ plural ）