rendezvous

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: ren=dez=vous

CIDE DICTIONARY

rendezvous, n. 

•  A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.  [1913 Webster]

  "[Rare in the plural.]"

  "An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers."  [1913 Webster]
•  Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.  [1913 Webster]

  "The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough."  [1913 Webster]
•  A meeting by appointment.  Sprat.  [1913 Webster]
•  Retreat; refuge.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

rendezvous, v. i. 

 To assemble or meet at a particular place.  [1913 Webster]

rendezvous, v. t. 

 To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.  Echard.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rendezvous, n. & v.
--n. (pl. same)
1 an agreed or regular meeting-place.
2 a meeting by arrangement.
3 a place appointed for assembling troops, ships, etc.
--v.intr. (rendezvouses; rendezvoused; rendezvousing) meet at a rendezvous.

Etymology

F rendez-vous present yourselves f. rendre: see RENDER

THESAURUS

rendezvous

appointment, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assignation house, at home, ball, brawl, bunch, bunch up, caucus, clot, cluster, collect, colloquium, come together, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, congregate, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, converge, convocation, copulate, council, couple, crowd, dance, date, diet, eisteddfod, festivity, fete, flock together, flow together, forgather, forgathering, forum, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gathering, get-together, hangout, haunt, herd together, hive, horde, housewarming, huddle, league, levee, link, love nest, mass, meet, meeting, meeting place, merge, mill, muster, panel, party, place of assignation, plenum, prom, purlieu, quorum, raise, rally, rally around, reception, seance, seethe, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, stamping, stream, surge, swarm, symposium, synod, throng, tryst, turnout, unite

ROGET THESAURUS

rendezvous

Assemblage

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Focus

N focus, point of convergence, corradiation, center, gathering place, resort haunt retreat, venue, rendezvous, rallying point, headquarters, home, club, depot, trysting place, place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation, point de reunion, issue.