reunion

1. 1.

   a party of former associates who have come together again

   Broaderparty
2. 2.

   the act of coming together again

   “monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990”

   Synonymsreunification

   Broaderunion

   Narrowerhomecoming

Other forms of reunion

plural

reunions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reunion

What does reunion mean?

reunion means "a party of former associates who have come together again". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reunion?

reunion has 3 syllables: re-u-nion. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ɹiˈunjən/.

What is another word for reunion?

Close synonyms include reunification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reunion a common word?

reunion is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.