rendezvous

[rahn-duh-voo, -dey-, rahn-de-voo]

noun

plural

rendezvous 

1. an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.

2. the meeting itself.

3. a place designated for a meeting or assembling, especially of troops or ships.

4. a meeting of two or more spacecraft in outer space.

5. a favorite or popular gathering place.

verb (used with or without object)

rendezvoused, rendezvousing 

1. to assemble at an agreed time and place.

rendezvous

/ ˈrɒndɪˌvuː /

noun

1. a meeting or appointment to meet at a specified time and place

2. a place where people meet

3. an arranged meeting of two spacecraft

verb

1. to meet or cause to meet at a specified time or place

Word History and Origins

Origin of rendezvous¹

1585–95; < Middle French, noun use of rendez-vous (imperative) present or betake yourselves; render ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of rendezvous¹

C16: from French, from rendez-vous! present yourselves! from se rendre to present oneself; see _render

Example Sentences

A final group of around 10 hikers, accompanied by rescue workers, is yet to reach Qudang but has made it to a rendezvous point, which has heating equipment, oxygen and other emergency supplies.

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I meet him at Canter’s on Fairfax Avenue, a place too pure for this rendezvous, and am surprised by his appearance.

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The Irish authorities tracked the MV Matthew and the Castlemore over the next two days, as the two vessels attempted, but failed, to rendezvous in the Irish Sea during storms.

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Before the rendezvous with Clark at the boathouse, I’d treated myself to a manicure.

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A decade later, Stanley Kubrick opened his virtuosic “The Shining” with fluid tracking shots of the same model of automobile headed toward the Overlook Hotel and a rendezvous with horror.

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Related Words

• assignation 
• blind date 
• tryst