1 [C,U] (formal) a long and serious treatment or discussion of a subject in speech or writing:
a discourse on issues of gender and sexuality * He was hoping for some lively political discourse at the meeting.
2 [U] (linguistics) the use of language in speech and writing in order to produce meaning; language that is studied, usually in order to see how the different parts of a text are connected:
spoken / written discourse * discourse analysis
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
discourse on / upon sth (formal) to talk or give a long speech about sth that you know a lot about:
He discoursed for hours on the problems of the education system.
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