Meaning of Réunion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process or act of reuniting.
   countable, uncountable
2. An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.
3. Alternative spelling of reunion.
   alt-of, alternative
4. A planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The reunion took forever, but it was worth it.”

“It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again.”

“Are you going to the high-school reunion this year?”

“We are concerned with the fact — not with its genesis. Whether the war between France and Austria was unjust or unavoidable ; which party prepared, and which began, the conflict ; whether Louis Napoleon originally designed, and whether he now relishes, that creation of a Kingdom of United Italy, of which he was the undoubted instrument ; whether the citizens of the new state ought to be grateful to him for their emancipation and reünion, or to Providence for having overruled his purposes ; whether the cession of Savoy and Nice was a moderate and necessary, or a questionable and a needless, price ; how far the duplicity and misstatements which undeniably discredited the transaction, exceeded the recognized limits of diplomatic mystification […]”

“Overture on Reünion: The Reports of the Joint Committee of the Two Assemblies of 1866–7, and of the Special Committee of the (N.S.) General Assembly of 1868”

“He speaks respectfully of the Peelites: “There was now no substantial obstacle to the reünion of the great Conservative party.””

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