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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapport \Rap*port"\ (r[a^]p*p[=o]rt"; F. r[.a]'p[^o]r"), noun [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.
'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. --Sir W. Temple.
{En' rap'port"} ([aum]N' r[.a]'p[^o]r") [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rapport
noun
1: relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people [syn: {resonance}]
2: a feeling of sympathetic understanding [syn: {compatibility}]
3: sympathetic compatibility [syn: {accord}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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