rendez-vous

Noun

rendezvous (plural rendezvous or (rare) rendezvouses)

1. A meeting or date.
   • Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)

   Synonyms:

   assignation

2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
   • Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
3. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
   • an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson...

   Synonyms:

   meeting place

4. The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
   • The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...
5. 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.
   • A rendeuous, a home to fly untoc. 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...

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