Category:Rendezvous

Ren"dez*vous (rn"d*voo or rn"-; 277), n.; pl. Rendezvouses (r.

Note: [rare in the plural.] Etym: [f. rendez-vous, properly, render Yourselves, repair to a place. See render.]

1. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily Meet. An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. Sir w. Scott.

2. Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a Fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a Rendezvous at marlborough. Clarendon.

3. A meeting by appointment. Sprat.

4. Retreat; refuge. [obs.] Shak.

Rendezvous Ren"dez*vous (rn"d-voo or rn"-; 277), v. i. [imp. &. p. p. Rendezvoused (-vood); p. pr. & vb. n. Rendezvousing (-voo*ng).]

Defn: to assemble or meet at a particular place.

Rendezvous Ren"dez*vous, v. t.

Defn: to bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. Echard.