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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A meeting at a prearranged time and place. See Synonyms at engagement.
  2. n. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
  3. n. A popular gathering place: The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.
  4. n. Aerospace The process of bringing two spacecraft together.
  5. v. To bring or come together at a rendezvous.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A place of meeting; a place at which persons (or things) commonly meet; specifically, a place appointed for the assembling of troops, or the place where they assemble; the port or place where ships are ordered to join company.
  2. n. Ameeting; a coming together; an associating.
  3. n. An appointment made between two or more persons for a meeting at a fixed place and time.
  4. n. A sign or occasion that draws men together.
  5. n. A refuge; an asylum; a retreat.
  6. To assemble at a particular place, as troops.
  7. To assemble or bring together at a certain place.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A meeting or date.
  2. n. An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
  3. v. To meet at an agreed time and place.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  2. n. Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  3. n. A meeting by appointment.
  4. n. obsolete Retreat; refuge.
  5. v. To assemble or meet at a particular place.
  6. v. To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a place where people meet
  2. n. a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
  3. n. a meeting planned at a certain time and place
  4. v. meet at a rendezvous

Etymologies

  1. From French rendez-vous, from rendez, second person plural, imperative, of se rendre ("to go (to)") + vous ("you"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from the phrase rendez vous, present yourselves, from Old French : rendez, second person pl. imperative of rendre, to present; see render + vous, yourselves, you (from Latin vōs, you; see wŏ̄s in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Charnell mack Your rendezvous is at noon tomorrow in the main post office.(dictionary) Sep 27, 2010

  • Prolagus I don't care cause I'm by myself
    All the dancers left but I can't dance
    So I will stay and clean the mess they left behind.
    But I dream as I set to scrub all the floors, the walls
    I'm thinking of a song or two, a boy, a girl, a rendezvous.


    (Women's realm, by Belle and Sebastian) Sep 9, 2008

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