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rendezvous
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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]”.
Pronunciation
Noun
rendezvous (plural rendezvous or (rare) rendezvouses)
- A meeting or date.
- I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
- 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
- The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
- 1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars:
- 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
- 2017 August 29, Andrew Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks’ Assange on DNC hack”, in CNN:
- “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.
- 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.
- 1821 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, and Co., →OCLC:
- an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
- (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- 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 at the [Sheldonian] Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
- The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
- (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- (obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
- c. 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
Usage notes
The plural form of rendezvous (/-vu/) is normally rendezvous (/-vuz/ or /-vu/). Rarely, the form rendezvouses is encountered.
Synonyms
- (military): RV (abbreviation)
Descendants
Translations
meeting or date
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agreement to meet
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a place appointed for a meeting
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Verb
rendezvous (third-person singular simple present rendezvouses or rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing, simple past and past participle rendezvoused)
- (intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.
- Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
- 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 Edward III.), § XLIII, page 41:
- [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.
- 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 392:
- In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.
- 2024 February 16, Minju Pak, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 February 2024:
- They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.
Translations
See also
- rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation
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Czech
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rendezvous n (indeclinable)
- date, appointment (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
- Synonym: rande
Further reading
- “rendezvous”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French rendez-vous.
Noun
rendezvous n (singular definite rendezvouset or rendezvous'et, plural indefinite rendezvouser or rendezvous'er)
Inflection
Synonyms
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous (“appointment”).
Noun
rendezvous
Further reading
- “rendezvous” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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