rendezvous
nounEtymology
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
- borrowed from rendez-vous
Definitions
A meeting or date.
- Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)
- I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
- The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
- Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
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The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble
The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and…
A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
A retreat or refuge.
- A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
To meet at an agreed time and place.
- Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
- [H]e ſupplied Charles vvith a numerous army, vvhich rendezvouſed at Angers, under the command of his eldeſt ſon John duke of Normandy, attended by ſeveral princes of the blood and the flovver of the French nobility.
- In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.
The neighborhood
- synonymRV
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA