rendezvous

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

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noun, plural ren·dez·vous

[rahn-duh-vooz; French rahn-de-voo] /ˈrɑn dəˌvuz; French rɑ̃ dɛˈvu/.

an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
the meeting itself.
a place designated for a meeting or assembling, especially of troops or ships.

a meeting of two or more spacecraft in outer space.
a favorite or popular gathering place.

verb (used with or without object), ren·dez·voused

[rahn-duh-vood] /ˈrɑn dəˌvud/, ren·dez·vous·ing

[rahn-duh-voo-ing] /ˈrɑn dəˌvu ɪŋ/.

to assemble at an agreed time and place.

Origin of rendezvous

1585–95; < Middle French, noun use of rendez-vous (imperative) present or betake yourselves; see render¹

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Related Words for rendezvous

assignation, tryst, affair, appointment, matinee, engagement, date, meet, meeting, hangout, venue, spot, haunt, resort, purlieu, raise, congress, muster, gather, converge

Examples from the Web for rendezvous

Contemporary Examples of rendezvous

He could not return home, and in order to see his mother one last time, he had to rendezvous in a secret location.
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When they rendezvous again at Langley during the funeral, it was to make it official.
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This lunchtime rendezvous, after all, is tantamount to a date.
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Sometimes great nations have a rendezvous with greatness, and such is the case today.Translated from the French by Janet Lizop.
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Historical Examples of rendezvous

But Allister had not come in, although he was usually the first at a rendezvous.
Way of the Lawless
Max Brand
The keeper of the rendezvous received us gladly, and we shipped immediately.
Ned Myers
James Fenimore Cooper
Not for anything must she be first at the rendezvous, even though it were only for a drawing-lesson.
The Incomplete Amorist
E. Nesbit
Had she decoyed him to the rendezvous in the dark but to betray him to the bandits with whom she was in league?
The Inn at the Red Oak
Latta Griswold
His house was the rendezvous of all the nobility of the Court.'
Vivian Grey
Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

British Dictionary definitions for rendezvous

rendezvous

noun plural -vous (-ˌvuːz)

a meeting or appointment to meet at a specified time and place
a place where people meet
an arranged meeting of two spacecraft

verb

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

Word Origin for rendezvous

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

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Word Origin and History for rendezvous

1590s, "place for assembling of troops," from Middle French rendez-vous, noun use of rendez vous "present yourselves," from rendez, plural imperative of rendre "to present" (see render (v.)) + vous "you," from Latin vos, from PIE *wos- "you" (plural). General sense of "appointed place of meeting" is attested from 1590s.

1640s, from rendezvous (n.).