rendezvous
English
/ˈɹɑndəˌvu/, /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- (spaceflight) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- (obsolete) Retreat, refuge.
Etymology
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (appointment).
Origin
French
rendez-vous
Gloss
appointment
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- randivoo English
- randivow English
- Rendezvous German
- rendez-vous French
- рандеву Russian
- rendez-vous Portuguese
- ランデブー Japanese
- randka Polish
- rendez-vous Polish
- rendezvous Danish
- rendevuo Esperanto
- rondefŵ Welsh
- randevu Turkish
- рандеву Macedonian