tryst

[ trist, trahyst ]
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noun
  1. an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.

  2. an appointed meeting.

  1. an appointed place of meeting.

verb (used with object)
  1. Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or arrange a meeting with.

verb (used without object)
  1. Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or agreement.

Origin of tryst

1
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English triste “appointed hunting-station,” from Old French, from Germanic; compare Gothic trausti “agreement, arrangement,” akin to Middle English trist “confidence,” Old English tryst (unrecorded); see trow, trust

Other words for tryst

Other words from tryst

  • tryster, noun

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How to use tryst in a sentence

  • The primitive trysts were probably at the old Trysting Trees; trust means reliability and credit and truce means peace.

    Archaic England | Harold Bayley
  • That flits upon an orbit elliptically or parabolically or hyperbolically curved, keeping no man knows what trysts with Time.

    The Rhythm of Life | Alice Meynell
  • The Tay no longer makes trysts with its tributaries to meet “at the bonny cross of St. Johnstoun.”

  • Here was no Juliet, flaming to the moon—no mistress whose steed would gallop by wind-swept roads to midnight trysts.

    The Gay Cockade | Temple Bailey
  • The young men and maidens turned prayer-meeting into trysts and scrubbing-bees into festivals.

British Dictionary definitions for tryst

tryst

/ (trɪst, traɪst) archaic, or literary /


noun
  1. an appointment to meet, esp secretly

  2. the place of such a meeting or the meeting itself

verb
  1. (intr) to meet at or arrange a tryst

Origin of tryst

1
C14: from Old French triste lookout post, apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse traust trust

Derived forms of tryst

  • tryster, noun

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