fireside chat

English

Noun

fireside chat (plural fireside chats)

(historical) Any one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
(by extension) An informal address delivered by a political leader over radio, television, or the Internet.

Further reading

“fireside chat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“fireside chat”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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