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Meanings of conversant in English

(Usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly.

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Experienced and clever, profesional.

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Examples for "skilled"
Examples for "skilled"
1
The second related question is: where do the skilled staff come from?
The Guardian
2
However, he was certainly skilled enough to join her in working here.
Jupiter War
3
Institutions, especially local government, are weak and lack skilled staff and expertise.
Reuters
4
The Resident Labour Market Test will fall away for highly skilled workers.
The South African
5
Click: This programme has a list of 90 skilled trades in demand.
The Irish Times
Usage of conversant in English
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His manner quickly altered from light and conversant to somber and serious.
In the shadow of the cypress
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The power of Brahmanas conversant with the Vedas is in the Vedas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Thou art he who is conversant with the meaning of the Vedas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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All of them are well-conversant with the Vedas and possessed of wisdom.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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My abode in Spain had made me somewhat conversant with its language.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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Those who are conversant with this philosophy succeed in attaining to tranquillity.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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One conversant with physics will see one fatal defect in this appliance.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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He has lived much in society, and is deeply conversant with books.
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
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Besides, Iris was not a girl who was conversant with social convenances.
In Luck at Last
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The Kid was conversant with their French patois, and followed it anxiously.
The Son of the Wolf
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The Brahmana is conversant with what has happened and what will happen.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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He indeed, succeeds in keeping himself afloat who becomes conversant with Brahma.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Brahmanas conversant with the Vedas say that that god has two forms.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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But I presume you are conversant with the soothing practice-withits details.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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And she was conversant with her son thirty-three year and three months.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Naturally Cleghorn and Webb were conversant with these refinements of mediaeval hydraulics.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
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