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rapport
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rapport has 1 sense
- rapport(n = noun.linkdef) resonance - a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people; Array is a kind of affinity, kinship
CIDE DICTIONARY
rapport, n. [F., fr. rapporter to bring again or back, to refer; pref. re- re- + apporter to bring, L. apportare. Cf. Report.].
Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord. [1913 Webster]
"'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rapport, n.
1 relationship or communication, esp. when useful and harmonious (in rapport with; establish a rapport).
2 Spiritualism communication through a medium.
1 relationship or communication, esp. when useful and harmonious (in rapport with; establish a rapport).
2 Spiritualism communication through a medium.
Etymology
F f. rapporter (as RE-, AP-, porter f. L portare carry)
THESAURUS
rapport
accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affability, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agape, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, alliance, amenity, amiability, amicability, amity, an in, approximation, assemblage, assent, association, bliss, blissfulness, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, closeness, coherence, coincidence, combination, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, complaisance, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, connectedness, connection, consistency, consonance, consort, contiguity, contrariety, cooperation, cordiality, correspondence, dealings, deduction, disjunction, empathy, enjoyableness, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, favor, favorable regard, feeling of identity, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, frictionlessness, friendly relations, geniality, good graces, good terms, good understanding, good vibes, good vibrations, goodliness, goodness, goodwill, graciousness, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, homology, identity, intercourse, intersection, intimacy, junction, kinship, liaison, like-mindedness, link, linkage, linking, love, mellifluousness, mellowness, mutual attraction, mutual regard, mutual understanding, mutuality, nearness, niceness, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, propinquity, proximity, rapprochement, reciprocity, regard, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, respect, self-consistency, sharing, similarity, solidarity, sweetness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, tally, team spirit, tie, tie-in, timing, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, welcomeness
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