rapport
/ɹæˈpɔɹ/
rapport noun: 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.
Noun
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.
- 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...1910, Charles Webster Leadbeater, chapter VII, in The Inner Life, volume I
- Relation; proportion; conformity.
- 'Tis obvious enough, what rapport there is, and muſt ever be, between the Thoughts and Words, the Conceptions and Languages of every Country, [...]1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 60
- Synonyms:
- accord, correspondence
rapport meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
rapport in Tamil
- உளத்தொடர்பு, உள ஒன்றிப்பு, நல்லெண்ணம், மனத்தொடர்பு
rapport in Urdu
- ہمدردی, رشتہ, تعلق
rapport in Bengali
- ঘনিষ্ঠ ও সৌহার্দ্যপূর্ণ সম্পর্ক
rapport in Malayalam
- close relationship, affinity, (mutual) understanding
- ചേർച്ച, മമത, മമത്വം, ഐമത്യം, ബന്ധുത്വം, സൗഹൃദം
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- rapport in Kannada
- ಹೊಂದಾಣಿಕೆ, ಒಮ್ಮನ, ನಿಕಟ ಬಾಂಧವ್ಯ, ಸಾಮರಸ್ಯ
Examples of rapport in a sentence
- The preteen stars develop an organic and winningly uncool rapport, that shared language of misfit middle-school camaraderie.
- He lists seven: people (this means internal morale and union rapport), institutional reform (Mr.
- Baldwin built the biggest by virtue of its rapport with the U.S.
Synonyms of rapport
Forms of rapport
| plural | rapports |
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Origin of rapport
Borrowed from French rapport. Doublet of report.
Words formed from rapport
Words that rhyme with rapport
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Questions about rapport
- What does rapport mean?
- Rapport means 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.
- What is rapport in Tamil?
- Rapport in Tamil is உளத்தொடர்பு, உள ஒன்றிப்பு, நல்லெண்ணம். See Rapport meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is rapport?
- Rapport is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rapport?
- Rapport is pronounced /ɹæˈpɔɹ/ (US).
- What is the plural of rapport?
- The plural of rapport is rapports.
Words near rapport in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapport (page history and authors); rapport (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapport (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapport (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapport (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); rapport (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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