rendezvous

rendezvous

See also: Rendezvous, rendez-vous, and rendezvous'

English

Alternative forms

• randezvous (archaic)
• rendez-vous

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/, /ˈɹɑndeɪ̯ˌvu/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/, /ˈɹɒndeɪ̯ˌvuː/

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Noun

rendezvous (plural rendezvous or (rare) rendezvouses)

1. 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

2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.

   Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.

3. 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, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 277979407:

     an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers

4. (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 Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.

5. (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
6. (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 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     A rendeuous, a home to fly unto

Usage notes

The plural form of rendezvous (/-vu/) is normally rendezvous (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form rendezvouses is encountered.

Synonyms

• (military): RV (abbreviation)

Descendants

• → Welsh: rondefŵ
• → Welsh: randibŵ

Translations

meeting or date

Arabic: Tunisian Arabic: رانديڥو‎ (randivu) Bulgarian: сре́ща (bg) f (sréšta) Chinese: Mandarin: 會合／会合 (zh) (huìhé), 約會／约会 (zh) (yuēhuì) Czech: rande (cs) n Danish: rendezvous (da) n Finnish: tapaaminen (fi) French: rendez-vous (fr) m German: Rendezvous (de) n Greek: ραντεβού (el) n (rantevoú) Haitian Creole: randevou Hungarian: randevú (hu) Persian: دیدار‎ (fa) (didâr), ملاقات‎ (fa) (molâqât) Polish: randka (pl) f Portuguese: encontro (pt) m Russian: свида́ние (ru) n (svidánije), встре́ча (ru) f (vstréča), рандеву́ (ru) n (randɛvú) Spanish: encuentro (es) m, cita (es) f Tagalog: tagpuan Turkish: randevu (tr) Welsh: rondefŵ m

agreement to meet

Chinese: Mandarin: (meeting; appointment) 約會／约会 (zh) (yuēhuì), (meeting location) 約會地點／约会地点 (yuēhuì dìdiǎn), (meeting time) 約會時間／约会时间 (yuēhuì shíjiān) Czech: dostaveníčko n Danish: rendezvous (da) n Finnish: tapaaminen (fi) French: rendez-vous (fr) m German: Rendezvous (de) n Persian: وعدهٔ دیدار‎ (va'de-ye didâr), قرار ملاقات‎ (qarâr-e molâqât) Polish: spotkanie (pl) m Portuguese: rendez-vous (pt) m Turkish: randevu (tr) Welsh: rondefŵ m

a place appointed for a meeting

Bulgarian: място на среща (mjasto na srešta) Finnish: tapaamispaikka Maori: taupunipuni Thai: จุดนัดพบ

Verb

rendezvous (third-person singular simple present rendezvouses or rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing, simple past and past participle rendezvoused)

1. To meet at an agreed time and place.
   • 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.

   Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.

Translations

meet at an agreed time and place

Arabic: Tunisian Arabic: رندف‎ (rǝndǝf) Bulgarian: срещам се (sreštam se) Chinese: Mandarin: 會合／会合 (zh) (huìhé), 見面／见面 (zh) (jiànmiàn) Finnish: tavata (fi), kohdata (fi) French: se donner rendez-vous, se rencontrer (fr), se rejoindre German: sich treffen Japanese: 待ち合わせる (machiawaseru) Turkish: randevulaşmak (tr)

See also

• rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation

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Czech

Alternative forms

• rendez-vous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrandɛvuː]

Noun

rendezvous n

1. date, appointment (meeting with a lover or potential lover)

Declension

Declension of rendezvous

	singular	plural
nominative	rendezvous	rendezvous
genitive	rendezvous	rendezvous
dative	rendezvous	rendezvous
accusative	rendezvous	rendezvous
vocative	rendezvous	rendezvous
locative	rendezvous	rendezvous
instrumental	rendezvous	rendezvous

Synonyms

• See also rande

Further reading

• rendezvous in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French rendez-vous.

Noun

rendezvous n (singular definite rendezvouset or rendezvous'et, plural indefinite rendezvouser or rendezvous'er)

1. rendezvous

Inflection

Declension of rendezvous

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rendezvous	rendezvouset rendezvous'et	rendezvouser rendezvous'er	rendezvouserne rendezvous'erne
genitive	rendezvous'	rendezvousets rendezvous'ets	rendezvousers rendezvous'ers	rendezvousernes rendezvous'ernes

Synonyms

• stævnemøde
• date