rendezvous

1. 1.

   meet at a rendezvous

   Broadermeet

Other forms of rendezvous

plural

rendezvouses·

past tense

rendezvoused·

present participle

rendezvousing·

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 rendezvous

What does rendezvous mean?

rendezvous means "a meeting planned at a certain time and place". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rendezvous?

rendezvous has 3 syllables: ren-dez-vous. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˈɹɑndɪˌvu/.

What is another word for rendezvous?

Close synonyms include tryst. 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 rendezvous a common word?

rendezvous 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.