Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rendezvous
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɑndɪv,u]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rendezvous
    Meaning: a meeting planned at a certain time and place
  • Synonyms: rendezvous
    Meaning: a place where people meet; "he was waiting for them at the rendezvous"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rendezvous
    Meaning: meet at a rendezvous
Usage examples
  • He was at the rendezvous.
  • "Do you," said I, "enjoy yourself, and let this be our rendezvous.
  • So here was Peter dressed in his best clothes, as for his temporary honeymoon with the grass widow, and on the way to the rendezvous an hour ahead of time.
  • During the French and Indian War, the place was prominent as a rendezvous for the enemies of American borderers; numerous bloody forays were planned here, and hither were brought to be adopted into the tribes, or to be cruelly tortured, according to savage whim, many of the captives whose tales have made lurid the history of the Ohio Valley.
  • All the robbers listened to him with the utmost satisfaction; when the captain, after commending his diligence, addressing himself to them all, said, "Comrades, we have no time to lose: let us set off well armed, without its appearing who we are; but that we may not excite any suspicion, let only one or two go into the town together, and join at our rendezvous, which shall be the great square.