REUNION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reunion mean? 

• REUNION (noun)
  The noun REUNION has 2 senses:

1. a party of former associates who have come together again

2. the act of coming together again

  Familiarity information: REUNION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REUNION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A party of former associates who have come together again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("reunion" is a kind of...):

party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of coming together again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reunification; reunion

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("reunion" is a kind of...):

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting (the act of making or becoming a single unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reunion"):

homecoming (an annual school or university reunion for graduates)

Derivation:

reunify (unify again, as of a country)

reunite (have a reunion; unite again)

 Context examples 

A gene duplication abnormality may occur by gene amplification, random breakage and reunion, retrotransposition or unequal crossing-over at meiosis.

(Gene Duplication Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

Becatecarin intercalates into DNA and stabilizes the DNA-topoisomerase I complex, thereby interfering with the topoisomerase I-catalyzed DNA breakage-reunion reaction and initiating DNA cleavage and apoptosis.

(Becatecarin, NCI Thesaurus)

Sir, he rejoined, with an occasional separation and reunion of those delicate tips, my answer must be qualified; because, to betray Mr. James's confidence to his mother, and to betray it to you, are two different actions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And I do take leave, longing for a happy reunion, and trusting that when we meet again, it will be under circumstances which may open our hearts to each other without any remnant or shadow of reserve.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)