Meaning

A meeting or date..

Definitions by Sense

1. A meeting or date.
2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
3. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
4. (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
5. (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
6. (obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
7. (intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)

I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.

The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.

These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.

You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you

“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.

Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.

an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers

Word Forms

• rendezvous
• rendezvouses
• randezvous
• rendez-vous
• rendezvousing
• rendezvoused

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When Should You Use Rendezvous?

Use rendezvous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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