reunification

See also: réunification

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ unification.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

reunification (countable and uncountable, plural reunifications)

1. The unification of something that was previously divided; used especially of a country.
   • 2010, Greg Kucich, Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism, page 273:

     Many of Spenser's readers today find the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation […]

   • 2025 October 29, Vitali Vitaliev, “Haunted by the past”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 68:

     With the collapse of the Wall and the reunification of Germany, the divided stations and railway lines of Berlin were 'reunited' too. The last 'ghost station' was reopened to all passengers in 1992, and the very term - "ghost station" - had come to denote any disused platform remaining from the divide.

Derived terms

• family reunification
• reunificationism
• reunificationist

Related terms

• reunified
• reunify

Translations

the unification of something that was previously divided; used especially of a country

• Arabic: إِعَادَةْ تَوْحِيد f (ʔiʕādat tawḥīd)
• Belarusian: уз'ядна́нне n (uzʺjadnánnje)
• Catalan: reunificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 統一 / 统一 (zh) (tǒngyī), 回歸 / 回归 (zh) (huíguī)

• Czech: znovusjednocení n
• Danish: genforening (da) c, reunion c (French campaigns by Louis XIV)
• Dutch: hereniging (nl) f
• Esperanto: reunuiĝo
• Faroese: endursameining f
• Finnish: jälleenyhdistyminen
• French: réunification (fr) f
• Georgian: ხელახლა გაერთიანება (xelaxla gaertianeba), კვლავ გაერთიანება (ḳvlav gaertianeba), ხელახლა შემოერთება (xelaxla šemoerteba)
• German: Wiedervereinigung (de) f
• Greek: επανένωση (el) f (epanénosi)
• Hebrew: איחוד m (ikhúd), איחוד מחדש m (ikhúd mekhadásh)
• Hungarian: újraegyesítés (hu)
• Icelandic: endurfundir m pl
• Irish: athaontú m
• Italian: riunificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 統一 (ja) (tōitsu)
• Korean: 통일(統一) (ko) (tong'il)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یەکگِرتِنەوە (yekgirtinewe)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenforening m or f

  Nynorsk: attendeføring

• Polish: zjednoczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: reunificação f
• Romanian: reunificare (ro) f
• Russian: воссоедине́ние (ru) n (vossojedinénije), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поновно састајање n, окупљање n

  Roman: ponovno sastajanje n, okupljanje n

• Spanish: reunificación (es) f
• Swedish: återförening (sv)
• Telugu: పునరేకీకరణ (punarēkīkaraṇa)
• Turkish: yeniden birleşme, uzlaşma (tr)
• Ukrainian: возз'є́днання n (vozzʺjédnannja)
• Vietnamese: thống nhất (vi) (統一)