| 释义 |
reune, v. U.S. colloq.|riːˈjuːn|
[Back-formation from reunion.]
intr. To hold a reunion.
1901Princeton Alumni Weekly 8 June 774/1 As the secretary of a class which has ‘reuned’ frequently..I wish to direct your attention to a breach of etiquette. 1929Amer. Speech V. 175 Several years ago the late E. K. Graham, then president of the University of North Carolina, in speaking of class reunions, used somewhat facetiously the word reune instead of the locution have a reunion. It seems that the word has stuck. 1929E. W. Springs Above Bright Blue Sky 237 She had seen in the paper where the 14th was going to reune at the banquet. 1948Amer. Legion Mag. Oct. 26/1 (heading) Retreads Will Reune. 1949Mencken in Kirby & Woolf Philologica 316 The embryologist of speech discerns several processes in the making of such novelties [sc. new verbs]. Some are simply nouns unchanged, e.g., to contact..others are back-formations from nouns, e.g., to locate, to enthuse, to reune. |
