rapport
See also: Rapport
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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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relationship of mutual trust and respect
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- “rapport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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rapport c (singular definite rapporten, plural indefinite rapporter)
- a report (information describing events)
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Declension of rapport
common gender |
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | rapport | rapporten | rapporter | rapporterne |
genitive | rapports | rapportens | rapporters | rapporternes |
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From Middle Dutch rapport, from Middle French rapport.
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rapport n (plural rapporten, diminutive rapportje n)
- a report
- (education) a report card
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rapport m (plural rapports)
- ratio
- report
- rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report
- relationship
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- “rapport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Borrowed from Italian rapporto.
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rapport m (plural rapporti)
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rapport m (plural rapports)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapporter, definite plural rapportene)
- a report (on events)
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- “rapport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapportar, definite plural rapportane)
- a report (on events)
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- “rapport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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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.
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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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- rapport in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- rapport in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- rapport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)