rapport
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See also: Rapport
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rapport (countable and uncountable, plural rapports)
- A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
- He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.
- 1910, Charles Webster Leadbeater, chapter VII, in The Inner Life, volume I:
- Such a man would almost certainly be pouring out a constant stream of loving thought towards humanity, and this thought would be a real and potent shower of blessing, tending generally towards the spiritual helping of those upon whom it fell; and there is no doubt that the man who was earnestly thinking of or praying to that saint would come into rapport with him, and would therefore draw down upon himself a great deal of that force, though entirely without the knowledge of the saint from whom it came.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "You can't have less than nothing. They ignore them altogether. Some time ago I had a series of cases of telepathic rapport which I wished to lay before the Royal Society."
- 2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
- She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.
- Relation; proportion; conformity.
- Synonyms: accord, correspondence
- 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 60:
- 'Tis obvious enough, what rapport there is, and muſt ever be, between the Thoughts and Words, the Conceptions and Languages of every Country, [...]
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Translations
relationship of mutual trust and respect
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Further reading
- “rapport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Etymology
Noun
rapport c (singular definite rapporten, plural indefinite rapporter)
- a report (information describing events)
Inflection
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | rapport | rapporten | rapporter | rapporterne |
| genitive | rapports | rapportens | rapporters | rapporternes |
Declension of rapport
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch rapport, from Middle French rapport.
Pronunciation
Noun
rapport n (plural rapporten, diminutive rapportje n)
- a report
- (education) a report card
Derived terms
- rapporteren
- eindrapport
- schoolrapport
Descendants
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rapport m (plural rapports)
- ratio
- report
- rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report
- relationship
- ellipsis of rapport sexuel (“sexual intercourse”).
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “rapport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rapport m (plural rapporti)
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Etymology
Noun
rapport m (plural rapports)
Etymology
Noun
rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapporter, definite plural rapportene)
- a report (on events)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “rapport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Etymology
Noun
rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapportar, definite plural rapportane)
- a report (on events)
Derived terms
References
- “rapport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rapport c
- a report (information describing events)
- (capitalized) Rapport (a news program)
- 1979, Per Gessle, Mats Persson (lyrics and music), “Flickorna på TV2”performed by Gyllene Tider:
- Sätter på TV2, sönderstressad av stan. Rapport med sport och väder.
- [I] turn on TV2 [former name of SVT2, a television channel], broken by the stress of the city [broken-stressed by the city]. Rapport with sports and weather.
Declension
Declension of rapport
Derived terms
- vindruterapport (“initial assessment (when just arrived to incident)”)
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