Rapprochement

Definition: Rapprochement

Rapprochement

Noun

1. The reestablishing of cordial relations.

Date "rapprochement" was first used: 1809. (references)

Etymology: Rapprochement \Rap`proche`ment"\, noun. [French expression, from rapprocher to cause to approach again. See Re-; Approach.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Rapprochement

Synonym: reconciliation (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Concord	Rapprochement; reunion; amity; (friendship); alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor, mediator.
Friendship	Cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Rapprochement

Non-English Usage: "Rapprochement" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (approximation, link, rapprochement, reconciliation, understanding).

Domain	Title
Books	Austro-German Rapprochement 1870-1879: From the Battle of Sedan to the Dual Alliance (reference) Breaking the Ice: Rapprochement Between East and West Germany the United States and China and Israel and Egypt (reference) Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics: Prospects for Rapprochement (reference) Rapprochement Du Droit Judiciaire Del'Union Europeenne-Approximation of Judiciary Law in the European Union (reference) Rapprochement or Rivalry?: Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Syria	In 1998, Syria began a slow rapprochement with Iraq, driven primarily by economic needs. (references)
	Pakistan	In the last several years, the Indo-Pakistani relationship has veered sharply between rapprochement and conflict. (references)
	Sudan	However, since 2000, Sudan has actively sought regional rapprochement that has rehabilitated most of these regional relations. (references)
Political Economy	Turkey	The so-called "Earthquake Diplomacy" between Greece and Turkey, inspired by mutual assistance in response to a series of earthquakes in both countries in 1999 and 2000, has produced a rapprochement that involves new agreements for cooperation on a range of issues, including trade, environment, customs, and tourism. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Rapprochement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rapprochement" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	114	30,294

Expression using "rapprochement": policy of rapprochement. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "rapprochement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rivendosje e marrëdhënjeve miqësore. (various references)

Arabic		‏مقارنة (compare, comparison, simile), ‏تقارب (converge), ‏تراض, ‏إقامة علاقات ودية, ‏دنو (access, oncoming, proximity). (various references)

Bulgarian		сближаване, помиряване (appeasement, conciliation, reconcilement, reconciliation). (various references)

Czech		navázání přátelských stykù. (various references)

Danish		et Europa,trofast over for deres venskaber med andre stater,overbevist om den rolle,der tilkommer det med hensyn til at fremme den internationale afspaending og tilnaermelsen mellem alle folk (conscious of the role it has to play in promoting the relaxation of international tension and the rapprochement among all peoples, true to its friendly relations with outside countries). (various references)

Farsi		نزدیکی (Accession, Adjacency, Affinity, Approximation, Contiguity, Propinquity, Proximity, Verge, Vicinity), تمایل بدوستی , ایجادروابطحسنه . (various references)

French		rapprochement. (various references)

German		Wiederannäherung. (various references)

Greek		προσέγγιση (access, approach, approximation, getting near, making land, precision), αποκατάσταση σχέσεων. (various references)

Hebrew		�"תקרבות (approaching, coming, coming near, convergence, oncoming), �"תפיסות (conciliation, reconciliation). (various references)

Hungarian		normalizálás (normalization). (various references)

Italian		riconciliazione (conciliation, reconciliation). (various references)

Pig Latin		approchementray.(various references)

Portuguese		aproximação (access, adit, approach, approximation, closure, forthcoming, impendence, in-flight demonstration, oncoming, position, set). (various references)

Russian		сближение (convergence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbližavanje. (various references)

Spanish		aproximación (approach, approximation, close up, close-up, forthcoming, in-flight demonstration), acercamiento (approach, closure, oncoming). (various references)

Swedish		närmande (approach, approximation, pass). (various references)

Thai		การกระชับมิตร. (various references)

Turkish		yeniden dost olma, uzlaşma (accommodation, accord, agreement, combine, compromise, give and take, half measure, half-way house, mediatory, reconciliation, reunification, reunion, settlement, understanding), barışma (pacification, peacemaking, reconciliation, settlement). (various references)

Ukranian		зближення (approximation). (various references)

Vietnamese		việc lập lại mối quan hệ hữu nghị. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	re-. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	rapprochement. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "rapprochement": rapprochements. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Rapprochement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rapproachement, rapprochemet, rapprochment. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "rapprochement" (pronounced ra'prō'shmÄ"n)
3	-m Ä" n	denouement.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-m-n-o-p-p-r-r-t"
	-3 letters: preachment.
	-4 letters: carpenter, cartopper, chaperone, copartner, notepaper, parchment, precentor, preceptor, preemptor, procreant, procreate, pronephra, treponema.
	-5 letters: anchoret, apothece, camphene, camporee, canephor, carotene, cenotaph, chaperon, choreman, choremen, chromate, coherent, comether, comparer, conepate, coparent, copemate, copperah, cremator, earphone, earthmen, ephorate, hamperer, menarche, mercapto, merchant, metaphor, pamperer, parcener, pentarch, permeant, perorate, portance, preacher, preenact, prompter, ranchero, recanter, recarpet, receptor, recreant, reproach, retrench, romancer, tamperer, threaper, torchere, trencher.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-m-n-o-p-p-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: rapprochements.
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