rendezvous

Meanings

Noun

• A meeting or date.
• An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
• A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
• The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
• A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
• Retreat, refuge.

Verb

• To meet at an agreed time and place.

Related

Similar words

• RV

Origin

• Borrowed from French rendez-vous ("appointment"), noun derived from second person plural imperative of rendre, literally "[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]."