rapport
See also: Rapport
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ɹæˈpɔɹ/, /ɹæˈpoʊɹ/, /ɹəˈpoʊɹ/, /ɹəˈpɔɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
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."
- Relation; proportion; conformity.
- Synonyms: accord, correspondence
- 1690, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning”, in Miscellanea. The Second Part. [...], 2nd edition, London: […] J. R. 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.
Danish
Noun
rapport c (singular definite rapporten, plural indefinite rapporter)
- a report (information describing events)
Inflection
Declension of rapport
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | rapport | rapporten | rapporter | rapporterne |
genitive | rapports | rapportens | rapporters | rapporternes |
Synonyms
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch rapport, from Middle French rapport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɑˈpɔrt/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: rap‧port
- Rhymes: -ɔrt
Derived terms
- rapporteren
- eindrapport
- schoolrapport
French
Etymology
Deverbal from rapporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.pɔʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʁ
- Homophone: rapports
Noun
rapport m (plural rapports)
- ratio
- report
- rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report
- relationship
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “rapport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rapˈpɔrt/
Norwegian Bokmål
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.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapportar, definite plural rapportane)
- a report (on events)
Derived terms
References
- “rapport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /rapˈɔʈː/, [ɾapˈɔʈː]
Noun
rapport c
- a report (information describing events)
- (capitalized) Rapport (a news program)
- 1979, Per Gessle, Mats Persson (lyrics and music), “Flickorna på TV2 [The girls on 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 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rapport | rapporten | rapporter | rapporterna |
Genitive | rapports | rapportens | rapporters | rapporternas |
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