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🗓️ 17 February 2024
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 17, 2024 is:
rapport • \ra-POR\ • noun
When you have a rapport with someone, your relationship is characterized by agreement, mutual understanding, or empathy that makes communication possible or easy.
// Once our daughter had developed a rapport with her piano teacher, she began to show some real enthusiasm for learning and practicing the piano.
Examples:
"No one ever equaled the [Smothers] brothers' unique rapport, blending folk music and natural conversations with sibling rivalry and comical bickering." — Marc Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
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The word rapport bears a resemblance to a more common English word, report, which is no coincidence: both words come ultimately from the Latin verb portare, meaning "to carry," and both traveled through French words meaning "to bring back" on their way to English. Report has been in use since the 14th century, when it entered Middle English by way of Anglo-French. Rapport was first used in the mid-15th century as a synonym of report in its "account or statement" meaning, but that meaning had become obsolete by the mid-19th century. It wasn't until the early 20th century that English speakers borrowed rapport back from French in the meaning of "a friendly, harmonious relationship." We're happy to report that rapport has since flourished, and we trust this friendly word will stick around a while.
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0:00.0 | It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for February 17th. |
0:11.0 | Today's word is |
0:12.0 | today's word is Rapporte, also pronounced Rapporte, and spelled R A P P P R T. |
0:19.4 | When you have a rapport with someone, your relationship is characterized by agreement, mutual |
0:23.8 | understanding, or empathy that makes communication possible or easy. |
0:28.8 | Here's the word used in a sentence from the Hollywood reporter. |
0:31.6 | No one ever equalled the Smothers Brothers unique |
0:35.2 | rapport, blending folk music and natural conversations with sibling rivalry and comical bickering. The word rapport bears a resemblance to the more common English |
0:46.8 | word report, which is no coincidence. Both words come ultimately from the Latin verb Portare meaning to carry and both |
0:56.1 | traveled through French words meaning to bring back on their way to English |
1:01.0 | Report has been in use since the 14th century, when it entered English by way of Anglo-French. |
1:07.6 | Rapport was first used in the mid-15th century as a synonym of Report, in its account or statement meaning, but that meaning had become |
1:17.0 | obsolete by the mid-19th century. |
1:19.8 | It wasn't until the early 20th century that English speakers borrowed Rapport back from the French |
1:25.8 | in the meaning of a friendly harmonious relationship. |
1:30.9 | We're happy to report that rapport has since flourished and we trust this friendly word |
1:36.4 | will stick around for a while. With your word of the day I'm Peter Suckalowski. Visit Marion Webster.com today for definitions, word play, and trending word-lookups. |
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