tryst

/tɹɪst/

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

Noun

tryst (plural trysts)

A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
- And Vivien, like the tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile, / Made answer, either eyelid wet with tears: […]1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Merlin and Vivien”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 23
- A silence supreme and altogether European. Shutters drawn, shops barred. A red glow here and there to mark a tryst.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6
(obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
(Scotland, historical) A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.

Verb

tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)

(intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
(transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
(intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
- He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the...1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

tryst meaning in Urdu, Kannada, Sinhala and Arabic

tryst in Urdu

جائے ملاقات, مویشیوں کا میلہ, ملنے کا وعدہ کرنا

tryst in Sinhala

prearranged meeting, now especially between lovers: හමුවීම hamuwīma

tryst in Arabic

prearranged meeting, now especially between lovers: مَوْعِد mawʕid, لِقَاء اَلْحُبّ liqāʔ al-ḥubb

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tryst in Indonesian: ketemuan, sir-siran, perjanjian

Examples of tryst in a sentence

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.2004, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life, page 11:
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?2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, №91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; →ISBN...
Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the tide when midnight is by, but afore cockcrow.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

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Forms of tryst

Noun
plural	trysts
Verb
third-person singular present	trysts
present participle	trysting
past participle	trysted
past	trysted

Plural of tryst: trysts

Origin of tryst

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust, see there for more.

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Questions about tryst

What does tryst mean?: Tryst means a prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
What is tryst in Urdu?: Tryst in Urdu is جائے ملاقات, مویشیوں کا میلہ, ملنے کا وعدہ کرنا. See Tryst meaning in Urdu.
How do you use tryst in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is tryst?: Tryst can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tryst?: Tryst is pronounced /tɹɪst/.
What is the plural of tryst?: The plural of tryst is trysts.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tryst (page history and authors); tryst (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tryst (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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