détente

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• Received-Pronunciation: /deɪˈtɑːnt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ˈtɒnt/
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• General-American: /deɪˈtɑnt/
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• General-American: [dɪ-]
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• rhymes with -ɑːnt
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Unadapted borrowing from French détente (“loosening, relaxing”), from Latin *dētendita, a feminine singular participle of dētendō (“to relax”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from; of’) + tendō (“to stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to stretch”)).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Arabic: انفراج دولي — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Azerbaijani: detent — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Basque: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Belarusian: разра́дка (razrádka) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Bulgarian: разведря́ване (razvedrjávane) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Catalan: distensió — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Chinese Mandarin: 低盪 /低荡 (dīdàng) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Chinese Mandarin: 緩和政策 /缓和政策 (huǎnhé zhèngcè) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Czech: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Danish: detente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Danish: afspændingspolitik — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Dutch: detente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Esperanto: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Estonian: pingelõdvendus — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Finnish: liennytys — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• French: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• German: Entspannungspolitik — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Hebrew: דֶּטַנְט \ דטאנט (detánt) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Hindi: तनावशैथिल्य (tanāvśaithilya) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Hungarian: enyhülés — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Ido: destenso — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Indonesian: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Irish: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Italian: distensione — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Japanese: デタント (detanto) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Korean: 데탕트 (detangteu) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Malay: detente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Māori: maurutanga — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Norwegian Bokmål: avspenningspolitikk — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Persian: دتانت (detânt) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Polish: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Portuguese: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Romanian: destinderea — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Russian: разря́дка (razrjádka) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Serbo-Croatian: дѐтант — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Serbo-Croatian: dètant — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Slovak: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Spanish: detente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Swedish: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Swedish: avspänning — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Swedish: avspänningspolitik — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Thai: การผ่อนคลายความตึงเครียด — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Turkish: detant — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Turkish: yumuşama — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Ukrainian: розря́дка (rozrjádka) — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Vietnamese: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Welsh: détente — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this
• Welsh: datynhad — relaxing of tension, especially between countries; an instance of this