rendezvous – English noun declension

English noun forms of rendezvous

Noun: rendezvous
Singularrendezvous
Pluralrendezvous

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)
  • I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
  • The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous. [1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:]
  • These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:]
  • You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you [1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars:]
  • “It is my understanding from other parties who are trying to arrange a rendezvous with myself and the President, it is being arranged for me to give him the firsthand information from (Assange),” Rohrabacher said. [2017 August 29, Andrew Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks’ Assange on DNC hack”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:]
  • Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
  • an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers [1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:]
  • The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
  • A rendeuous, a home to fly unto [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]

Nouns inflected like rendezvous

series, gallows, Snickers, rendezvous, innings,

Etymology

Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”. See: French Nouns 'rendez-vous'.