Reunion
nounA social gathering of people who have been apart, often family members or former classmates or colleagues.
How to spell reunion
7 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce reunion
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does reunion mean?
- nounA social gathering of people who have been apart, often family members or former classmates or colleagues.
Reunion in a sentence
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The family reunion brought three generations together for the first time in years.
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Her old university arranged a reunion for the graduating class of 2005.
Where does reunion come from?
Language of origin: French
This word came into English in the late 1500s from the French reunion, a noun built on the verb reunir meaning 'to bring together again'. That French verb was itself formed from the prefix re-, meaning 'again', attached to unir, 'to unite', which traces back to the Latin unire, 'to join into one', and ultimately to unus, the Latin word for 'one'. So the literal idea behind the word is people being made one again after being apart. The same unus root sits inside everyday relatives such as 'unite', 'union', 'unit' and 'unique', all of which share the notion of oneness. The spelling trap is the vowel run at the start: 're' followed straight by 'union', giving the slightly awkward 'reu' sequence, plus the soft '-ion' ending that adults sometimes second-guess.
How the word is built
- re- (again)
- union (a joining, from Latin unus 'one')
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