retrouvailles

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A warmly felt reunion with people who have been apart, usually after enough time for the meeting to carry emotion.
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Examples

  • Leurs retrouvailles furent brèves, mais elles ont suffi à effacer la distance.
    Their reunion was brief, but it was enough to erase the distance.
  • Après cinq ans à l'étranger, les retrouvailles avec sa sœur ont rempli la gare de larmes.
    After five years abroad, the reunion with his sister filled the station with tears.
  • Nous préparons des retrouvailles simples, autour d'un repas à la maison.
    We are preparing a simple reunion, around a meal at home.
  • Les anciens élèves ont organisé leurs retrouvailles dans le lycée rénové.
    The former pupils organized their reunion in the renovated school.
  • Le film s'ouvre sur les retrouvailles d'un père et de sa fille.
    The film opens with the reunion of a father and his daughter.

Similar words

reprise de contact
rassemblement
reconnexion
réunion
rencontre

Meanings

Reunion after absence

noun
social
neutral
The emotional act or moment of seeing someone again after a separation, especially when the meeting feels long awaited.

Examples

  • Après cinq ans à l'étranger, les retrouvailles avec sa sœur ont rempli la gare de larmes.
    After five years abroad, the reunion with his sister filled the station with tears.
  • Les anciens élèves ont organisé leurs retrouvailles dans le lycée rénové.
    The former pupils organized their reunion in the renovated school.
  • Le film s'ouvre sur les retrouvailles d'un père et de sa fille.
    The film opens with the reunion of a father and his daughter.
  • Nous préparons des retrouvailles simples, autour d'un repas à la maison.
    We are preparing a simple reunion, around a meal at home.
  • Leurs retrouvailles furent brèves, mais elles ont suffi à effacer la distance.
    Their reunion was brief, but it was enough to erase the distance.

Similar words

réunion
rencontre
reprise de contact
rassemblement
reconnexion

Etymology

From French retrouver, to find again or meet again, with the noun suffix -ailles. CNRTL records older singular uses from the late eighteenth century, while modern use is normally plural.

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