rapport

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rap=port

CIDE DICTIONARY

rapport, n. [F., fr. rapporter to bring again or back, to refer; pref. re- re- + apporter to bring, L. apportare. Cf. Report.].

 Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.  [1913 Webster]
"'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country."  [1913 Webster]

∥En` rap`port" ( [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympathy which permits influence or communication.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rapport, n.
1 relationship or communication, esp. when useful and harmonious (in rapport with; establish a rapport).
2 Spiritualism communication through a medium.

Etymology

F f. rapporter (as RE-, AP-, porter f. L portare carry)

THESAURUS

rapport

accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affability, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agape, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, alliance, amenity, amiability, amicability, amity, an in, approximation, assemblage, assent, association, bliss, blissfulness, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, closeness, coherence, coincidence, combination, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, complaisance, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, connectedness, connection, consistency, consonance, consort, contiguity, contrariety, cooperation, cordiality, correspondence, dealings, deduction, disjunction, empathy, enjoyableness, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, favor, favorable regard, feeling of identity, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, frictionlessness, friendly relations, geniality, good graces, good terms, good understanding, good vibes, good vibrations, goodliness, goodness, goodwill, graciousness, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, homology, identity, intercourse, intersection, intimacy, junction, kinship, liaison, like-mindedness, link, linkage, linking, love, mellifluousness, mellowness, mutual attraction, mutual regard, mutual understanding, mutuality, nearness, niceness, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, propinquity, proximity, rapprochement, reciprocity, regard, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, respect, self-consistency, sharing, similarity, solidarity, sweetness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, tally, team spirit, tie, tie-in, timing, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, welcomeness