reunion

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  1. noun The act of reuniting.
  2. noun The state of being reunited.
  3. noun A gathering of the members of a group who have been separated: a high school reunion.

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  • We met for a supper and tete-a-tete, the Prince, ghina, and I. The warmth of their reunion was a bit cooled by proper etiquette. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • All of those who had been at the reunion were there, including Frank, as well as Anna's mother, a sad little creature by the name of Doris, and quite remarkably, Alfred Nabb. —  Magyar Venus
  • She finds her mother, and finds her own kind—but again, given the understated complexity of her interactions with the McGarritt children, their reunion is all too easy Having said all this? —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • Considering the reunion was a one off tour, surely they could have coped for another month or two before they launched back into their D-list lives.
  • Paparazzi mysteriously tracked the onetime couple down, and their reunion has been the talk of celebrity media all week. —  Gawker
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  1. from Old French reunion, French réunion = Spanish reunion = Portuguese reunião, from Middle Latin reunire, make one again, reunite: see reune. Cf. union.
 

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