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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reunion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ Delorean car enthusiasts from all over the world are set to converge on the province on Thursday for their annual reunion.
▪ Without their involvement we could not continue with an annual reunion mass.
high
▪ Timothy Hutton heads a strong ensemble cast as a Manhattan pianist who returns home for his high school reunion.
■ NOUN
family
▪ It gives priority to economic co-operation, reconciliation, family reunions and government-level dialogue.
▪ It was like a family reunion but it was nothing compared to the scene on the set the next day.
▪ But Banderas is treating the event like a family reunion.
▪ I felt like a distant cousin stepping into an ongoing family reunion.
▪ For a while, being there felt like horning in on a family reunion.
▪ Go and celebrate in the family reunion area in Jubilee Gardens.
▪ We suggest that baptism for non-believers enables a family reunion to take place.
school
▪ I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week.
▪ Timothy Hutton heads a strong ensemble cast as a Manhattan pianist who returns home for his high school reunion.
■ VERB
attend
▪ Over 900 attended the reunion and as usual our thanks to all who worked so hard to make it successful.
▪ In 1995, about 150 former faculty and staff of Black Mountain attended a reunion on the Lake Eden campus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a family reunion
▪ David is hoping for an eventual reunion with his wife.
▪ My twenty-year high school reunion is in August.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A reunion should cater for all levels of work and it is hoped this can be rectified next time.
▪ At the Slavonic Studies reunion I met several current undergraduates from Campion.
▪ In 1995, about 150 former faculty and staff of Black Mountain attended a reunion on the Lake Eden campus.
▪ In the course of the reunion, the former collegians did what they had always done.
▪ Indeed, they've been estranged, with their reunion the basis for the play.
▪ Methodists' main concern was not so much the debate over collectivism v. individualism as over reunion of the various Methodist divisions.
▪ We all applaud and drink to reunion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reunion

Reunion \Re*un"ion\, n. [Pref. re- + union: cf. F. r['e]union.]

  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.

  2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reunion

c.1600, "act or fact of coming together again," from re- "back, again" + union; or from French réunion (1540s). Meaning "meeting of persons of previous connection" is from 1820.\n

\nThe island of Reunion, formerly known as Bourbon, was renamed during the French Revolution (1793) in commemoration of the 1792 union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, renamed back to Bourbon after 1815, then back to the Revolutionary name after 1848.

Wiktionary
reunion

n. 1 The process or act of reuniting. 2 A planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together.

WordNet
reunion
  1. n. a party of former associates who have come together again

  2. the act of coming together again; "monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990" [syn: reunification]

Wikipedia
Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"Reunion" is the 81st episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, It is the seventh episode of the fourth season.

In the episode, K'Ehleyr returns to the Enterprise to advise Captain Picard, who is chosen to arbitrate the selection of the new Klingon leader from two candidates, Gowron and Duras, one of whom is suspected to be a traitor.

Reunion (Angel)

"Reunion" is episode 10 of season 2 in the television show Angel.

Reunion (Buffy comic)

Reunion is a comic based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Reunion (novel)

Reunion (2001) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is the seventh chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.

Reunion (Cabot novel)

Reunion is the third installment of the young adult series The Mediator written by Meg Cabot. It was first published by Simon & Schuster in July, 2001 under the author's alternative pseudonym Jenny Carroll.

Reunion (video game)

Reunion, also known as Merit's Galactic Reunion, is a space strategy video game. It was the Hungarian game developer company Amnesty Design's (now Digital Reality) first game. The game was programmed by János Kistamás, Krisztián Jámbor, and Attila Lendvai ( Amiga), István Kiss ( DOS). The soundtrack was made by Tamás Kreiner which was the basis of his reputation.

Reunion (Stargate Atlantis)
Reunion (Gummer)

Reunion, a public sculpture by Don Gummer, is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, located near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The sculpture consists of two interlocking metal forms that have separate bases that eventually unite with one another. Reunion is located on the east side of the Herron School of Art and Design and is approximately 253 cm in height and approximately 167 cm wide. Reunion was created in 1992 as a model for a larger Reunion sculpture located in Japan. Reunion is made from cast bronze.

Réunion

Réunion (, ; previously Île Bourbon) is an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius, which is a region of France. , it had a population of 844,994.

The island has been inhabited since the 17th century, when people from France, Madagascar and Africa settled there. Slavery was abolished on 20 December 1848 (a date celebrated yearly on the island), after which indentured workers were brought from South India, among other places. The island became an overseas department of France in 1946.

The local language, spoken by the majority of the population, is Réunion Creole. The official language is French.

Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France. Like the other four overseas departments, it is also one of the 18 regions of France, with the modified status of overseas region, and an integral part of the Republic with the same status as Metropolitan France. Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, part of the Eurozone.

Reunion (Black Sabbath album)

Reunion is a live album by heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It features the original line-up of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, the first recording of the four musicians together after the firing of Osbourne in 1979. They had a couple of one-off reunions in 1985 and 1992, but never toured or recorded together.

This line-up played sporadic dates until Ronnie James Dio replaced Osbourne a second time, reforming the Heaven and Hell roster to tour following the release of the compilation album Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007).

This 2-CD live album was put together from the first two shows after the reunion, at the Birmingham NEC. Along with live versions of tracks such as " Paranoid", " N.I.B.", " Black Sabbath" and " Iron Man", it also features two new studio tracks – "Selling My Soul" and " Psycho Man". The two new tracks on Reunion were also released on a single CD in the USA.

Black Sabbath received their first Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, for the live recording of " Iron Man" from this album in 2000. They went on to win the same award 13 years later, with the song " God Is Dead?".

Reunion (TV series)

Reunion is an American television series that aired on FOX in late 2005. The series was intended to chronicle 20 years in the lives of a group of six high school friends from Bedford, New York, with each episode following one year in the lives of the six, beginning with their high school graduation year 1986. Each episode also featured scenes in the present where Detective Marjorino ( Mathew St. Patrick) is investigating the brutal murder of one of the group during the night of their 20-year class reunion in 2006. The identity of the murder victim was not revealed until the fifth episode, "1990".

Due to low ratings, the series was canceled after only nine episodes (four more episodes had been ordered but were not aired in the US), and the identity of the killer remained unrevealed in the aired episodes.

Reunion (The Temptations album)

Reunion is a 1982 album by The Temptations for Gordy Records. The album was released during the 1982 Temptations Reunion tour, which reunited David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks with the Temptations after a decade-long absence. The album also features then-current Temptations Dennis Edwards, Glenn Leonard, Richard Street, and founding members Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin. Reunion featured the hit single "Standing on the Top", produced by and featuring Motown funk star Rick James, who had previously used the Temptations as the background vocalists for his 1981 hit " Super Freak".

The Reunion tour, which began in April 1982 was only partially successful. Ruffin, a cocaine addict, missed several shows, causing the group to be fined thousands of dollars for each performance he missed, and Eddie Kendricks' falsetto voice had weakened due to constant smoking. Group leader Otis Williams decided that the reunion would not be a permanent thing, and fired Ruffin and Kendricks shortly after Christmas 1982.

Reunion (The Rankin Family album)

Reunion is the sixth studio album by Canadian folk music group The Rankin Family. It was released by EMI on January 16, 2007. The album peaked at number 50 on the Canadian Albums Chart.

Réunion (card game)

Réunion is a historical German 10-card point-trick game for three players using a 32-card French-suited piquet pack. Players who cannot follow suit must trump. Otherwise the game can be described as a simplified version of Skat, but is also reminiscent of Euchre.

Reunion (Viggo Mortensen album)

Reunion is the tenth album by actor Viggo Mortensen and avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, released in September 2011.

The album is dedicated to Tracy Thielen who died in 2006 and produced several of Mortensen's albums.

Reunion (short story)

"Reunion" is a short story by the American writer John Cheever, first published in 1962, and later included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978).

Reunion (1980 film)

Reunion is a 1980 television film directed by Russ Mayberry.

Reunion (M83 song)

"Reunion" is a song by French electronic music artist M83. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2012 as the second single from the group's sixth studio album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. The track was remixed by Polly Scattergood.

Reunion (genealogy software)

Reunion is genealogy software made by Leister Productions, Inc., a privately held firm established by Frank Leister in 1984 located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The company operates as a genealogy ( family tree) software developer exclusively for the Mac OS. Reunion was initially a Macintosh application, programmed in Apple's HyperCard. Version 4 was available for Windows and Macintosh until the Windows version was sold to Sierra in 1997.

Reunion provides methods to create, manipulate and generate reports about a family history. It has the capability to produce charts depicting family relationships and the ability to produce Web pages for publishing a family history online. Reunion can also be used to gather family statistics. It allows integration of images and movies into Reunion family files.

Reunion (Gary Burton album)

Reunion is a 1989 album by Gary Burton, reuniting him with guitarist Pat Metheny for their first recordings in almost 13 years. Both have been called prodigies; Burton when he joined George Shearing's group in 1963 at age 19. Burton met Metheny at the Wichita Jazz Festival in 1973, when Metheny was 18 years old. After welcoming him as a teaching colleague at the Berklee College of music, he hired the guitarist into the newly expanded Gary Burton Quintet in 1974.

Metheny left Burton's group in 1977 to form his own quartet with Lyle Mays. The two had virtually no contact with each other until, in early 1988, the organizers of the Montreal Jazz Festival contacted Burton. They told him that Metheny was the festival host, and invited Burton to join him onstage. "My apprehension was immediately erased when I saw how easy it was for us to play together, even after 12 years," said Burton. This led to their collaboration on Reunion.

Reunion (1989 film)

Reunion is a 1989 dramatic film based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Fred Uhlman, directed by Jerry Schatzberg from a screenplay by Harold Pinter. It stars Jason Robards. The film was released in France under the title L' Ami Retrouvé and in Germany as Der wiedergefundene Freund.

The story is centred on the "enchanted friendship" of two teenagers in 1933 Germany. Hans Strauss (Christien Anholt) is the son of a Jewish doctor and Konradin Von Lohenburg (Samuel West) is from an aristocratic family. The background is the rise of Nazism. Jason Robards plays the older Hans in the 70's as he prepares to travel to Germany for the first time since the 1930s. The film was shot on location in Berlin, New York and Stuttgart. Reunion was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Reunion (30 Rock)

"Reunion" is the fifth episode of the third season of American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 41st episode of the series overall. It was written by supervising producer Matt Hubbard and directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network in the United States on December 4, 2008. Guest stars in this episode include Susan Barrett, Marceline Hugot, Robyn Lively, Janel Moloney, Diane Neal, Rip Torn, and Steve Witting.

In the episode, Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey) is opposed to going to her high school reunion, but her boss, Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin), manages to convince her otherwise. Meanwhile, Don Geiss (Torn) wakes up from his coma only to inform Jack of his decision to remain CEO of General Electric (GE). At the same time, Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan) and Jenna Maroney ( Jane Krakowski) feel threatened by NBC page Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer) when he gets more laughs than they do in the elevator.

"Reunion" has received generally positive reception from television critics. According to the Nielsen ratings system, it was watched by 7.2 million households during its original broadcast. Matt Hubbard won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, while Beth McCarthy-Miller received a nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.

Reunion

Reunion or The Reunion or La Réunion may refer to:

Reunion (2012 film)

is a Japanese film directed by Ryoichi Kimizuka, starring Toshiyuki Nishida. It premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in September 2012, and was released at cinemas in Japan on 23 February 2013.

Reunion (1971)

Reunion is a novella by Fred Uhlman, set in Germany, seven years before the start of World War II. The novella was published in 1971.

Reunion (ClariS song)

"Reunion" is a pop song by the Japanese duo and idol unit ClariS, written by Kz. It was released as the unit's seventh single on April 17, 2013 by SME Records. The song was used as the opening theme to the 2013 anime series Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.. A music video was produced for "Reunion", directed by Jungo. The single peaked at No. 2 on Japan's weekly Oricon singles chart.

Reunion (1936 film)

Reunion is a 1936 film produced by 20th Century Fox and directed by Norman Taurog.

Reunion (1932 film)

Reunion is a 1932 British drama film directed by Ivar Campbell and starring Stewart Rome, Anthony Holles and Fred Schwartz. It was a quota quickie made at Shepperton Studios for release by the American studio MGM. An ex-army officer helps out an old comrade.

Reunion (B.J. Thomas album)

Reunion is a 1975 album by B.J. Thomas released through ABC Records. Thomas' first country album, Reunion contained one of Thomas' signature hit singles, " (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song", reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (2nd Pop #1), the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart (4th AC #1 overall), and the Hot Country Singles chart (his 1st #1 here). The song also peaked at #1 on Canada's AC chart, #2 on its country chart & #3 on its pop chart, and also hit #3 in New Zealand. The album itself would reach #59 on the U.S. Billboard 200, #2 on the Top Country Albums chart & #40 in Canada. Also included on the album is a cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying".

Reunion (advertisement)

Reunion is a 2013 Google India advertisement for Google Search. It was directed by Amit Sharma, written by Sukesh Kumar Nayak, produced by an Ogilvy India branch of Ogilvy & Mather, and published on YouTube on November 13, 2013. Reunion is about the fictional reunion between two elderly men, Baldev Mehra (Vishwa Mohan Badola) from India and Yusuf ( Mysore Shrinivas Sathyu) from Pakistan. They were separated as children during the Partition of India.

It has had a strong impact in both India and Pakistan, leading to hope for the easing of travel restrictions between the two countries. It went viral and was viewed more than 1.6 million times before officially debuting on television on November 15, 2013.

Usage examples of "reunion".

MacInnes strode forward to receive the raucous greeting and Abigail watched the reunion with a touch of envy.

I, the daughter of the man who had done so much to put these poor lonely spirits into the Beyond, should be made their sole channel of reunion with their bereaved and sorrowing adorers?

The addition of the boisterous, red-haired Wildantor turned our little reunion into an extended party, and I was enjoying myself immensely.

What happened between him and Davina was an interlude before that reunion.

Divine power was as infinite as human expectation, and the Egyptian, duly ensepulchred in the Lybian Catacombs, was supposed to be already on his way to the Fortunate Abodes under the guidance of Hermes, there to obtain a perfect association and reunion with his God.

He knew from many trifling signs, unnoticed by others, that Erica would have given a great deal to see her way to an honest acceptance of that teaching of Christ which spoke of an unseen but everywhere present Father of all, of the everlastingness of love, of a reunion with those who are dead.

Speaking on the reunion of the Churches the peoples of the East are anxious to know--not whether the Church of the West has preserved the unmixed Christian spirit in its integrity, but whether this Church still keeps Filioque as a dogma, and whether she has ikons, and whether she allows eggs and milk in Lent.

At these reunions I had to play the part of host--to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks-- all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St.

I was not admitted to these reunions for a week or ten days, by which time I had made myself generally popular.

The Northern California Holocaust Center, and the Lourie and Friedman families, who welcomed me to their family reunion in Charleston.

The families scheduling reunions in Pickax during the summer may have suggested ideas for his twice-weekly column, but his real interest was pure curiosity: He had never been a member of a family.

In Pickax the host families of reunions were exhorted to register their plans and receive help with accommodations, entertainment reservations, and restaurant availabilities.

Of the seven family reunions scheduled for Pickax, Qwilleran chose the Ogilvie-Fugtree gathering.

The prophecies about the Taker creating a reunion of the peoples of Seros must come to pass first.

Brulet, Van Esh, Farmer, Ponteau, Regnault, and Rosenberg cite instances of reunion of a digit after amputation or severance.