rapport
- relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic relation: a teacher trying to establish close rapport with students.
Origin of rapport
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
One agent in particular developed a rapport with Zubaydah and managed to elicit an all-important bit of intelligence.
Is there some kind of rapport that makes it okay to convey this without seeming like a threat?
He was so kind at that moment; I immediately felt a rapport with him.
When Gary Wright Met George Harrison: Dream Weaver, John and Yoko, and MoreGary Wright
September 29, 2014
Daniel [Craig] is the one I had most rapport with, because we were ships passing.
Pierce Brosnan’s Life After Bond: From Action Hero to Losing His Daughter to CancerTim Teeman
July 2, 2014
Despite being unable to communicate much, they have rapport and everyone around them believes they are dating.
Historical Examples
I fear not We have a parade and a field-inspection, and then 'rapport' at noon.
The Daltons, Volume II (of II)Charles James Lever
There can be no reconciliation, no truce, no "rapport" between these.
Suspended JudgmentsJohn Cowper Powys
Both had this habit of registering the rapport of everything to Sally as a first duty.
Somehow GoodWilliam de Morgan
There was a rapport between man and animal that was understood.
DeathworldHarry Harrison
Don't you think the family will be happier if I am not there to spoil the rapport of departure?
The Narrow HouseEvelyn Scott
rapport
- (often foll by with) a sympathetic relationship or understandingSee also en rapport
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for rapport
n.
1660s, "reference, relation, relationship," from French rapport "bearing, yield, produce; harmony, agreement, intercourse," back-formation from rapporter "bring back; refer to," from re- "again" (see re-) + apporter "to bring," from Latin apportare "to bring," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)).
Psychological meaning "intense harmonious accord," as between therapist and patient, is first attested 1894, though the word had been used in a very similar sense with reference to mesmerism from 1845 (first recorded in Poe). Cf. also report (n.). Johnson frowns on the word and credits its use in English to Sir William Temple, naturalizer of French terms, who did use it but was not the first to do so.
rapport
(ră-pôr′, rə-)- Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity.