small talk(n = noun.communication) causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle - light informal conversation for social occasions;
is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze

N  loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.

N  conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.

baby talk, back talk, big talk, by small degrees, chalk talk, double talk, empty talk, idle talk, in small stages, nonsense talk, pep talk, pillow talk, sales talk, shop talk, small, small beer, small boat, small business administration, small businessman, small calorie, small cane, small cap, small capital, small cell carcinoma, small chance, small change, small civet, small computer system interface, small cranberry, small farmer, small fortune, small fry, small hours, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, small intestine, small letter, small loan company, small magellanic cloud, small minded, small person, small potatoes, small print, small ship, small slam, small stores, small stuff, small time, small town, small voice, small white, small white aster, sweet talk, table talk, talk, talk about, talk back, talk big, talk down, talk into, talk nonsense, talk of, talk of the town, talk out of, talk over, talk shop, talk show, talk terms, talk to, talk turkey, wee small voice