rendezvous
UK/ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː//ˈɹɑndəˌvu/
rendezvous noun: a meeting or date.
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.
- Synonyms:
- assignation
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- 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...
Verb
rendezvous (third-person singular simple present rendezvouses or rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing, simple past and past participle rendezvoused)
- To meet at an agreed time and place.
- Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
- [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.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...
rendezvous meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
rendezvous in Hindi
- rendezvous, meeting
- अभिसार abhisār
rendezvous in Urdu
- rendezvous
- ملاقات mulāqāt
rendezvous in Bengali
- সাক্ষাতের জন্য নির্ধারিত স্থান, সৈন্যদের, এছাড়াও, সৈন্য, সদস্য সংগ্রহের স্থান, কোনো আশ্রয়স্থল
rendezvous in Telugu
- rendezvous
- సంకేతం saṅkētaṁ
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- rendezvous in Malayalam
- സമാഗമസ്ഥാനം, സങ്കേതം, മുൻകൂട്ടി നിശ്ചയിച്ച സ്ഥലത്ത് എത്തുക
- rendezvous in Kannada
- ಕೂಡೆಡೆ, ಸಂಕೇತ ಸ್ಥಳ, ನಿಗದಿಪಡಿಸಿದ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಕೊಡುದಾಣ
- rendezvous in Punjabi
- ملاقات mulāqāt
- rendezvous in Tagalog
- tagpuan
- rendezvous in Persian
- دیدار didâr, ملاقات molâqât, وعدهٔ دیدار va'de-ye didâr, قرار ملاقات qarâr-e molâqât
- rendezvous in Thai
- จุดนัดพบ
Examples of rendezvous in a sentence
- The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
- These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:
- 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 you1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars:
- In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 392:
Synonyms of rendezvous
Forms of rendezvous
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rendezvous |
| alternative form | rendez-vous |
| plural (rare) | rendezvouses |
| alternative form (archaic) | randezvous |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rendezvouses |
| third-person singular present | rendezvous |
| present participle | rendezvousing |
| past participle | rendezvoused |
| past | rendezvoused |
Origin of rendezvous
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]”.
Questions about rendezvous
- What does rendezvous mean?
- Rendezvous means a meeting or date.
- What is rendezvous in Hindi?
- Rendezvous in Hindi is अभिसार (abhisār). See Rendezvous meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use rendezvous in a sentence?
- The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
- What part of speech is rendezvous?
- Rendezvous can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce rendezvous?
- Rendezvous is pronounced /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rendezvous?
- The plural of rendezvous is rendezvous.
Words near rendezvous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rendezvous (page history and authors); अभिसार (Hindi) (page history and authors); ملاقات (Urdu) (page history and authors); rendezvous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); సంకేతం (Telugu) (page history and authors); rendezvous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rendezvous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ملاقات (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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