TALK

Definitions

1. 1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope. Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay.
2. 2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke.
3. 3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.