reunion1
/riːˈjuːnjən
/ /riːˈjuːnɪən/noun
1An instance of two or more people coming together again after a period of separation: she had a tearful reunion with her parents...
- Within five days she flew home alone for a tearful reunion with her parents and he was arrested by German police.
- On Waterloo Station, the scene of so many romantic reunions and separations, Rolf begins sketching the couple that will become the model for his interpretation of this work.
- The scenes were repeated all along the border area, with tearful and emotional reunions between mothers and daughters, brothers and cousins.
1.1A social gathering attended by members of a group of people who have not seen each other for some time: a school reunion...
- He attends Pueblo reunions but rarely socializes with other crew members.
- War veterans attending an annual reunion at Bletchley Park were shocked to be confronted by German soldiers in full uniform and manning a machine gun.
- We look forward to attending the official reunion and centenary celebrations over the October long weekend.
1.2 [mass noun] The action of being brought together again as a unified whole: the reunion of East and West Germany...
- The human being is the ultimate form of creation from which the next step in spiritual evolution is reunion with or ascent into the Godhead.
- China's reunion with capital-surplus Hong Kong has also come as a boon.
- These models have examined the problems that might arise from the reunion of diverged parental genomes.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French réunion or Anglo-Latin reunio(n-), from Latin reunire 'unite'.
Réunion2
/riːˈjuːnjən/ /riːˈjuːnɪən/ /ʀeynjɔ̃/A volcanically active, subtropical island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, one of the Mascarene Islands; population 807,000 (est. 2007); capital, Saint-Denis. A French possession since 1638, the island became an administrative region of France in 1974.