Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A meeting at a prearranged time and place. synonym: engagement.
- noun A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
- noun A popular gathering place.
- noun Aerospace The process of bringing two spacecraft together.
- transitive & intransitive verb To bring or come together at a rendezvous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place of meeting; a place at which persons (or things) commonly meet; specifically, a place appointed for the assembling of troops, or the place where they assemble; the port or place where ships are ordered to join company.
- noun Ameeting; a coming together; an associating.
- noun An appointment made between two or more persons for a meeting at a fixed place and time.
- noun A sign or occasion that draws men together.
- noun A refuge; an asylum; a retreat.
- To assemble at a particular place, as troops.
- To assemble or bring together at a certain place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- noun Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- noun A meeting by appointment.
- noun obsolete Retreat; refuge.
- intransitive verb To assemble or meet at a particular place.
- transitive verb To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
meeting ordate . - noun An
agreement to meet; alocation ortime agreed upon to meet. - verb To meet at an agreed time and place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a place where people meet
- noun a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
- noun a meeting planned at a certain time and place
- verb meet at a rendezvous
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And then finally on the third day, we're going to wake up and we get right into what we call the rendezvous checklist.
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The word rendezvous plainly indicates some kind of a meeting.
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Lewis E. Theiss
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I was not traced – our rendezvous is still a secret for which the government would pay a thousand dollars!
The Hidden Hand 1888
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There was only one time, then, and one place where he should be killed: at what I had now come to think of as the 'rendezvous' - a word expressing both a time and a place.
The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966
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The Rovers were to "rendezvous" -- Tim had found this word in the
All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club" Oliver Optic 1859
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Yeah, Reg. A rendezvous is the only reason I can think of for someone to come here.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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The accident occurred about 6 a.m. in an area known as a rendezvous for vehicles and smugglers traveling by foot.
Border Patrol agents killed pursuing suspected smugglers 2011
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Yeah, Reg. A rendezvous is the only reason I can think of for someone to come here.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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This last line, where it says to ‘wait on the bald head,’ clearly refers to a rendezvous point.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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The next morning, he made breakfast and told me he had a great time, but his girlfriend was coming back from New York later that evening, so our rendezvous was a one time deal.
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009
Prolagus commented on the word rendezvous
I don't care cause I'm by myself
All the dancers left but I can't dance
So I will stay and clean the mess they left behind.
But I dream as I set to scrub all the floors, the walls
I'm thinking of a song or two, a boy, a girl, a rendezvous.
(Women's realm, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 9, 2008
100000656913442 commented on the word rendezvous
Your rendezvous is at noon tomorrow in the main post office.(dictionary)
September 27, 2010
GHibbs commented on the word rendezvous
It appears that with this irregular verb rendezvous also functions as the third person singular and present indicative.
December 10, 2013