RENDEZVOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rendezvous mean? 

• RENDEZVOUS (noun)
  The noun RENDEZVOUS has 3 senses:

1. a meeting planned at a certain time and place

2. a place where people meet

3. a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex

  Familiarity information: RENDEZVOUS used as a noun is uncommon.

• RENDEZVOUS (verb)
  The verb RENDEZVOUS has 1 sense:

1. meet at a rendezvous

  Familiarity information: RENDEZVOUS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENDEZVOUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A meeting planned at a certain time and place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rendezvous" is a kind of...):

coming together; congress; meeting (the social act of assembling for some common purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rendezvous"):

assignation; tryst (a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers))

Derivation:

rendezvous (meet at a rendezvous)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A place where people meet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

he was waiting for them at the rendezvous

Hypernyms ("rendezvous" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Derivation:

rendezvous (meet at a rendezvous)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A date; usually with a member of the opposite sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

rendezvous; tryst

Hypernyms ("rendezvous" is a kind of...):

appointment; date; engagement (a meeting arranged in advance)

Derivation:

rendezvous (meet at a rendezvous)

• RENDEZVOUS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rendezvous    ... he / she / it rendezvous    / rendezvouses   
Past simple: rendezvoused   
Past participle: rendezvoused   
-ing form: rendezvousing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meet at a rendezvous

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "rendezvous" is one way to...):

get together; meet (get together socially or for a specific purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

rendezvous (a meeting planned at a certain time and place)

rendezvous (a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex)

rendezvous (a place where people meet)

 Context examples 

The carriage is our rendezvous, then?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you, said I, enjoy yourself, and let this be our rendezvous.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now that Dawn can reliably communicate with Earth again, mission controllers have programmed the maneuvers necessary for the next stage of the rendezvous, which they label the Ceres approach phase.

(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)

To my inexperience this appeared to bring the whole matter to a conclusion, but I had underrated the foresight of those who arrange these affairs, and also the advantages which made Crawley Down so favourite a rendezvous.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Except to the attack on Nanny's cousin, Sir Thomas no longer made any objection, and a more respectable, though less economical rendezvous being accordingly substituted, everything was considered as settled, and the pleasures of so benevolent a scheme were already enjoyed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)