retrouvailles
Language: French · [ʁətʁuvɑj] · Pronunciation: ruh-troo-VIE
Pronunciation: Speaker: Roptat
Recorder: Roptat · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
the joy of finding each other again after long apart — a reunion
The story
French builds it on retrouver, to find again, and uses it only in the plural, as though one such moment could never arrive alone. It is the arrivals-gate scene: the hug, then the step back to look properly. English names the occasion a reunion; this word names the joy inside it.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- French
- Which feeling does it carry?
- Joy that comes with a return
- Where would you hear it?
- Arrivals at the airport, flowers in hand
- What does it mean?
- The joy of meeting again after years
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