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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An island of France in the western Indian Ocean southwest of Mauritius. Previously uninhabited, it was visited by the Portuguese in the early 1500s and first colonized by the French in the mid-1600s as the Isle de Bourbon. Renamed Réunion in 1793, it became an overseas department in 1946.

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  • proper noun Island in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.
  • proper noun Overseas département of France on this island.

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