Rapprochement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rapprochement \Rap`proche`ment"\, n. [F., fr. rapprocher to
     cause to approach again. See {Re-}; {Approach}.]
     Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together;
     establishment or state of cordial relations.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  


           He had witnessed the gradual rapprochement between the
           papacy and Austria.                      --Wilfrid
                                                    Ward.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rapprochement
       n : the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: {reconciliation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapprochement":
     accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity,
     bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship,
     charity, communion, community, community of interests,
     compatibility, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence,
     empathy, esprit, esprit de corps, feeling of identity,
     fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, good vibes,
     good vibrations, happy family, harmonizing, harmony, identity,
     kinship, like-mindedness, love, making up, mutuality, oneness,
     peace, rapport, reciprocity, reconcilement, reconciliation,
     reunion, settlement, sharing, solidarity, sympathy, symphony,
     team spirit, understanding, union, unison, unity