appointment

1. 1.

   the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

   “the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee”

   Synonymsassignmentdesignationnaming

   Broaderdecision

   Narrowernominationco-optiondelegacyordinationrecognition
2. 2.

   a meeting arranged in advance

   “she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date”

   Synonymsdateengagement

   Broadermeeting

   Narrowerblind datedouble datetryst
3. 3.

   (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)

   Synonymsfitting

   Broaderfurnishing

   plural

4. 4.

   a person who is appointed to a job or position

   Synonymsappointee

   Broaderperson
5. 5.

   the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed

   “he applied for an appointment in the treasury”

   Broaderoccupation
6. 6.

   (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment

   “she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment”

   Broaderdisposal

   law

Other forms of appointment

plural

appointments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appointment

What does appointment mean?

appointment means "the act of putting a person into a non-elective position". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appointment?

appointment has 3 syllables: ap-point-ment. The stress falls on "point". In IPA it is /əˈpɔɪntmənt/.

What is another word for appointment?

Close synonyms include assignment, designation, naming, date, engagement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appointment a common word?

appointment is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appointment?

1 word rhymes with appointment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.