rendezvous

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23
Words With Friends
26
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/(UK)
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/ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/(UK) · /ˈɹɒndeɪ̯ˌvuː/(UK) · /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/(US) · /ˈɹɑndeɪ̯ˌvu/(US) · /ɾɔɳɖevu/

Definition of rendezvous

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.”
    “These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.”
    “You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you”
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noun

  1. 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.”
    “These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.”
    “You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you”
  2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
    “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
  3. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
    “an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers”
  4. 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.”
  5. A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
  6. (obsolete)A retreat or refuge.
    “A rendeuous, a home to fly unto”

verb

  1. (intransitive)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.”
    “They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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]”.

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