rapprochement
/ɹæpɹoʊʃˈmɑn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.
Example Sentences
- "It was the Nixon administration that saw the rapprochement between the United States and China."
- "The inauguration of a liberal order of things, a rapprochement of the [First French] Empire with constitutionalism and Parliamentary government, had been expected from the Speech from the Throne now just given. This expectation is completely disappointed by the speech. …"
- "Not forever, however, was the animal world to suffer this indignity at the hands of man. Thinkers themselves prepared the way for a rapprochement between the two. More particularly the English philosophers from [John] Locke onward, together with their French followers, […] may be said by a sort of leveling-down process to have favored the idea of a mental kinship between man and brute."
- "M. [Aristide] Briand, in a statement on the French foreign policy said a lasting European peace was impossible without a Franco-German rapprochement."
- "Attempts at a Hungarian–Yugoslavian rapprochement are not a recent matter, and Italy has always approved of them. But in the past these attempts had been made with the idea of breaking up the Little Entente and isolating Yugoslavia."
- "Moreover, the reactionary economic and political forces in south Korea show little sympathy with the commission meetings now being held in an effort to achieve American-Russian rapprochement. Instead, their program calls for American pressure to dislodge Russia and the Communists from north Korea, by force if necessary."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹæpɹoʊʃˈmɑn/
- British English: /ɹəˈpɹɒʃmɒ̃/