détente
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French détente (“relaxing”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /deɪˈtɒnt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /deɪˈtɑnt/, /dɪˈtɑnt/
- Rhymes: -ɒnt
Noun[edit]
détente (plural détentes)
- (chiefly politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 318:
- Analogous structural and political constraints stood in the way of a lasting détente between Germany and Britain.
- 2014 January 14, Stephen Kinzer, “Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal”, in The Guardian[1]:
- No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
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a relaxing of tension, especially between countries
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin detenta or detendita, as a feminine past participle of detentus.
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Noun[edit]
détente f (plural détentes)
- relaxation, détente
- trigger (firearms)
- (sports) height to which one is able to jump
- (physics) expansion of a gas or a spring
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Further reading[edit]
- “détente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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