chat Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an informal conversation
    confab; schmoose; confabulation; schmooze.
  2. noun birds having a chattering call
    New World chat.
  3. noun songbirds having a chattering call
    Old World chat.
  4. verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
    shoot the breeze; chit-chat; chew the fat; confab; chitchat; jaw; claver; visit; chaffer; natter; gossip; chatter; confabulate.
    • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

WordNet

Chat intransitive verb
Etymology
From Chatter. *22.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Chatted; present participle & verbal noun Chatting
Definitions
  1. To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak.
    To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.
    Syn. -- To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.
Chat transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To talk of. Obs.
Chat noun
Definitions
  1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
    Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope.
  2. (Zoöl.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yelow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
Chat noun
Definitions
  1. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
  2. pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore.

Webster 1913