rendezvous
[rahn-duh-voo, -dey-; French rahn-de-voo]
- 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.
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- to assemble at an agreed time and place.
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Origin of rendezvous
1585–95; < Middle French, noun use of rendez-vous (imperative) present or betake yourselves; see render1
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Contemporary Examples
He could not return home, and in order to see his mother one last time, he had to rendezvous in a secret location.
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.
Sometimes great nations have a rendezvous with greatness, and such is the case today.Translated from the French by Janet Lizop.
Historical Examples
But Allister had not come in, although he was usually the first at a rendezvous.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
The keeper of the rendezvous received us gladly, and we shipped immediately.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
Not for anything must she be first at the rendezvous, even though it were only for a drawing-lesson.
The Incomplete AmoristE. 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 OakLatta Griswold
His house was the rendezvous of all the nobility of the Court.'
Vivian GreyEarl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
rendezvous
- a meeting or appointment to meet at a specified time and place
- a place where people meet
- an arranged meeting of two spacecraft
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- to meet or cause to meet at a specified time or place
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Word Origin
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
n.
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.
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v.
1640s, from rendezvous (n.).
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