Reunion

Definition: Reunion

Reunion

Noun

1. A party of former associates who have come together again.

2. The act of coming together again.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reunion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Synonym: Reunion

Assemblage

Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark.

Concord

Rapprochement; reunion; amity; (friendship); alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor, mediator.

Focus

Noun: focus; point of convergence; corradiation; center; gathering place, resort haunt retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot; (store); trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue.

Junction

Noun: junction; joining; Verb: joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion, annexation, annexment; astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation; accouplement; marriage; (wedlock,); infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage.

Sociality

Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare.

Crosswords: Reunion

French (meeting), Spanish (union).

One family reunion coming right up. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao)

Why don't I make a fabulous reunion dinner (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I got suckered into making the stupid welcoming speech at the reunion tonight (Wings; writing credit: Ere Kokkonen)

I think I had a heart attack and died at the reunion! (Peggy Sue Got Married; writing credit: Jerry Leichtling; Arlene Sarner)

I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Oh, oh the mother and child reunion (Mother and Child Reunion; performing artist: Paul Simon; writing credit: Paul Simon)

High School Reunion (2003)

Class Reunion (1970)

The Family Reunion (1966)

Spring Reunion (1957)

Last Reunion (1955)

Mother and Child Reunion (performing artist: Paul Simon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Banque de la Reunion: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Sodere - Societe de Developpement Regional de la Reunion: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Reunion Industries, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• A Strategic Profile of Reunion,1999 edition (reference)

• The 2001 Reunion Economic and Product Market Databook (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Reunion in Death (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Eglise A La Reunion (reference)

• L Economie De La Reunion (reference)

• Le Quotidien De La Reunion Et De L Ocean Indien : Selection (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (reference)

• Snoopy Double Feature Vol. 1 (You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown/Snoopy's Reunion) (reference)

• The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Proud Flesh: Matrix Reunion (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Adobe Type Manager 4.5 Deluxe Upgrade Includes Type Reunion Deluxe 2.5 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Survivors of the U.S.S. Kearsarge" -- Veterans of the Kearsarge's Civil War crew pose at a reunion, circa the 1890s. Those present are identified (as numbered) in Photo # NH 46716 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY.

The reunion of the Bill Family. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fiftieth anniversary of peace and reunion. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pres. Roosevelt greeting "the boys" who fought in Cuba--"Rough Rider" reunion at San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vue de la montagne elevée au champ de la reunion. Credit: Library of Congress.

North Atlantic squadron at Philadelphia, Grand Army [of the Republic] reunion. Credit: Library of Congress.

Articles on mantelpiece and photograph showing last reunion of deputy U.S. Marshalls in Indian territory. Scene in home of farm family now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/ Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Family reunion on front lawn on Sunday near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee, Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 16-19, 1917, Mess "B". Credit: Library of Congress.

Alumni reunion, "Ladies' Group", Indiana State School for the Deaf, June 6, 1908, old Institution grounds named "Willard Park", May 29, 1908. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Korea

In August and December 2000, and in February 2001, the DPRK and the Republic of Korea sent delegations of members of separated families to each other's capitals for family reunion meetings. (references)

Korea

A fourth reunion was scheduled for October; however, the Government cancelled the meetings citing South Korea's nation-wide security alert issued following the September 11 terrorism attacks in the U.S.. Many foreign visitors to the 1995 International Pyongyang Sports Festival reported that they were denied permission to visit or otherwise contact their relatives, even those who lived only a few miles from Pyongyang. (references)

Economic History

Comoros

Most freight is sent first to Mombasa or Reunion and transshipped from there. (references)

Trade

Mauritius

The IOC includes Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles, Reunion and the Comoros. (references)

Travel

Thailand

FAMILY REUNION (requiring marriage or birth certificates). (references)

Worker Rights

Mauritius

In 1999 there were reports from Madagascar that women and young girls were trafficked to the islands of Reunion and Mauritius for prostitution; however, there were no similar reports during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reunion": a family reunion ♦ class reunion ♦ family reunion ♦ point de reunion ♦ reunion of the exiled. Additional references.

Ending with "reunion": all-family-reunion, near-reunion.

Albanian

ribashkim, takim (appointment, assignation, contact, encounter, engagement, gathering, interview, meet, meeting, rendezvous, tryst), bashkim (affiliation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, coalescence, community, compound, confederation, conflux, conjunction, consolidation, coupling, fusion, hookup, integration, interconnection, interflow, interfusion, joinder, joining, joint, junction, league, ligature, linkage, merger, reconcilability, seam, soldering, splice, unification, union, welding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لقاء عائلي, ‏لقاء خريجين, ‏لقاء إصدقاء, ‏وصال (intercourse), ‏جمع شمل, ‏إتحاد من جديد, ‏إعادة توحيد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

повторно обединяване. (various references)

Chinese 

团聚 (reunite). (various references)

Czech

shledání, setkání (encounter, meeting), schùzka (appointment, date, engagement, meeting, rendezvous, tryst), opìtné sjednocení. (various references)

Farsi 

تجدیدجلسه , تجدیددیدار, بهم پیوستگی (Accretion, Solidarity), بازپیوست . (various references)

Finnish

kokous (assemblage, assembly, conference, congress, gathering, meeting), jälleennäkeminen (meeting). (various references)

French

réunion. (various references)

German

Treffen (affect, assignation, bump up against, catch, connect, encounter, find, hit, hit upon, hurt, impinge, make, meet, meet with, meeting, meetings, rally, reach, reunions, run across, stricken, strike, take, to encounter), Wiedervereinigung (reunification). (various references)

Greek 

συνένωση εκ νέου, ξανασμίξιμο. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפגש רעים, פגישת מחזור. (various references)

Hungarian

újraegyesítés (reunification), újraegyesülés (recombination). (various references)

Indonesian

reuni. (various references)

Italian

riunione (assembly, congregation, get together, meet, meeting, muster, proceedings, rally, round up, session). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

親睦 (friendship), 再会 (another meeting, meeting again). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しんぼく (friendship, sacred tree), さいかい (another meeting, confronting, facing, meeting, meeting again, purification, reopening, resumption, the bottom, the cellar, the lowest rank). (various references)

Korean 

재회. (various references)

Manx

aawhaaltys, aachruinnaght. (various references)

Pig Latin

eunionray.(various references)

Portuguese

reunião (assemblage, assembly, bee, collection, combination, combine, conclave, conference, congregation, gathering, group, heap, herd, meet, meeting, moot, muster, omnium gatherum, powwow, quakers' meeting, rally, roll call, session, sitting, turn-out), junção (accumulation, combination, concourse, conjunction, interflow, join, joinder, joint, junction, juncture, knitting, knuckle, merger, muster, roll call, union), agrupamento de pessoas (afflux, junta, junto). (various references)

Romanian

reuniune (assembly, collection, function, gathering, party, sociable, social), reunire (join, joinder), unire (accord, agreement, alliance, coalescence, coalition, combination, confederacy, confluence, conjugation, conjunction, connection, harmony, hook up, solder, solidarity, union, unity), strânsurã (fodder, gathering, harvest), adunare (accumulation, addition, aggregate, assemblage, assembly, cluster, collection, conference, congregation, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, heap, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, rodeo, sitting, social, tot, turn out). (various references)

Russian 

встреча друзей, встреча (get together, interview, meeting, parley, reception), воссоединение (reunification), примирение (conciliation, propitiation, reconcilement, reconciliation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ponovno sjedinjenje, ponovni sastanak. (various references)

Spanish

reunión (aggregation, assemblage, assembly, collect, convenience, convocation, gathering, Ingathering, joinder, joining, junction, meeting, muster, party, proceedings, rally, tie). (various references)

Swedish

sammankomst (assemblage, assembly, convention, gathering, get together, interview, meeting, session, sociable), återförening. (various references)

Thai

การชุมนุมกัน (social), การกลับมารวมกันใหม่. (various references)

Turkish

uzlaşma (accommodation, accord, agreement, combine, compromise, give and take, half measure, half-way house, mediatory, rapprochement, reconciliation, reunification, settlement, understanding), toplanma (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, bee, build up, collection, coming together, concentration, concourse, congregation, congress, convention, gathering, getting together, grouping, muster, rally, rallying, rush), tekrar toplanma, birleşme (accord, alliance, association, coalescence, coalition, cohesion, concrescence, concretion, conjugation, conjunction, copulation, fusion, hookup, incorporation, integration, joinder, joining, juncture, meeting, merger, unification, union), anma toplantısı. (various references)

Ukrainian

возз'єднання (reunification), примирення (appeasement, conciliation, propitiation, reconcilement, reconciliation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng được sum hợp, tình trạng được hợp nhất cuộc hội họp, sự sum họp, sự họp lại, sự hợp nhất lại (reunification), cuộc họp mặt thân mật sự hoà hợp. (various references)

Welsh

aduniad, adundeb. (various references)

rapprochement. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "reunion": reunionist, reunionistic, reunionists, reunions. (additional references)

Words ending with "reunion": preunion. (additional references)

Words containing "reunion": preunions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reunion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eionion, Eranio, jewnion, Rahunen, Refunjol, Renison, Renqiong, Renzio, Rieunier, ronyon, Runyan, runyon, Trunnion. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: neuron.

-2 letters: ennui, inner, inure, inurn, irone, ourie, renin, rouen, union, urine.

-3 letters: euro, inro, iron, neon, nine, noir, none, nori, noun, rein, roue, ruin, rune.

-4 letters: eon, ern, inn, ion, ire, nor, nun, one, ore, our, rei, rin, roe, rue, run, urn.

-5 letters: en, er, in, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, un.

+1 letter: neuronic, neutrino, preunion, reunions, unironed.

+2 letters: centurion, continuer, neutrinos, neutronic, preunions.

+3 letters: burgeoning, centurions, coenduring, conquering, continuers, countering, counterion, enamouring, enunciator, foundering, guerdoning, innumerous, interunion, journeying, neurogenic, neurotoxin, noninsured, nonroutine, nonserious, numeration, outearning, outgrinned, quaternion, rebounding, recounting, redounding, refounding, remounting, renouncing, resounding, reunionist, roughening, tourneying, uncovering, underdoing, undergoing, unforgiven, uninformed, unneurotic.

+4 letters: antineutron, bourgeoning, boutonniere, coinsurance, connoisseur, counterions, countermine, countersign, countersink, crenulation, encouraging, enshrouding, enumeration, enunciators, floundering, forerunning, incongruent, inopportune, intercounty, interfusion, interneuron, internuncio, interunions, intravenous, manoeuvring, mensuration, monseigneur, mountaineer, neurotoxins, neurulation, nitrogenous, nonreducing, nonroutines, nourishment, numerations, outlearning, outpreening, overburning, overfunding, overhunting, overrunning, overturning, premunition, quaternions, rebuttoning, resummoning, reunionists, ruinousness, supernation, unconfirmed, uncontrived, uniformness, unignorable, unmonitored, unorganized, unreasoning, unsoldering.