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raison d'être
[ rey-zohn de-truh; French re-zawn de-truh ]
noun
- reason or justification for being or existence:
Art is the artist's raison d'être.
raison d'être
/ rɛzɔ̃ dɛtrə /
noun
- reason or justification for existence
raison d'être
- A basic, essential purpose; a reason to exist: “Professor Naylor argues that in the nuclear age, infantry forces have lost their raison d'être.” From French, meaning “reason for being.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of raison d'être1
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Example Sentences
The discussion of this proposal seems to make plain the raison d'etre for the existence of the Sentinel.
To her, as to the wily widow, this was the incident of the evening—in fact, the whole raison d'etre of it.
The question was sufficiently important to demand an experimental solution; hence the raison d'etre of the present demonstration.
So my reader will perhaps understand the raison d'etre of the proverb, "The lawyers own England."
And since a cult must have an object of group hate as a raison-d'etre, he chose the androids.
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