Tryst

Quick meaning: Tryst is a noun meaning A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

Meaning

A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland, historical) A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.
2. (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
3. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
4. (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
5. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.

Example Sentences

A silence supreme and altogether European. Shutters drawn, shops barred. A red glow here and there to mark a tryst.

And Vivien, like the tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile, / Made answer, either eyelid wet with tears: […]

But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.

If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?

Word Forms

• trysts
• trysting
• trysted

Synonyms for tryst

Depending on context, synonyms include rendezvous, assignation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assignation, rendezvous, matchmaking, hookup, throupling, match.

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