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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
Pronunciation
Noun
rendezvous (plural rendezvous or (rare) rendezvouses)
- A meeting or date.
- Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)
I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.
2017 August 29, Andrew Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks’ Assange on DNC hack”, in CNN[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 3 December 2022:“It is my understanding from other parties who are trying to arrange a rendezvous with myself and the President, it is being arranged for me to give him the firsthand information from (Assange),” Rohrabacher said.
- An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
- A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- Synonym: meeting place
- (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- Coordinate term: rallying point
- (rocketry) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- (obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
Usage notes
The plural form of rendezvous (/-vu/) is normally rendezvous (/-vuz/ or /-vu/). Rarely, the form rendezvouses is encountered.
Synonyms
- (military): RV (abbreviation)
Descendants
Translations
a place appointed for a meeting Verb
rendezvous (third-person singular simple present rendezvouses or rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing, simple past and past participle rendezvoused)
- (intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.
Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
1757, T[obias] Smollett, chapter V, in A Complete History of England, […], volume II, London: […] James Rivington and James Fletcher, […], →OCLC, 3rd book (From the Death of King John to the Death of Edward III.), § XLIII, page 41:[H]e ſupplied Charles vvith a numerous army, vvhich rendezvouſed at Angers, under the command of his eldeſt ſon John duke of Normandy, attended by ſeveral princes of the blood and the flovver of the French nobility.
2024 February 16, Minju Pak, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 February 2024:They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.
Translations
meet at an agreed time and place See also
- rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation
Czech
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rendezvous n (indeclinable)
- date, appointment (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
- Synonym: rande
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French rendez-vous.
Noun
rendezvous n (singular definite rendezvouset or rendezvous'et, plural indefinite rendezvouser or rendezvous'er)
- rendezvous
Inflection
Synonyms
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous (“appointment”).
Noun
rendezvous
- rendezvous
- a place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet
- a meeting
- Synonym: pertemuan
- a date
- Synonym: kencan
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous (“appointment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rendezvous
- rendezvous
- (rocketry) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
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