rendezvous

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ren·dez·vous1 /ˈrɒndəvuː, -deɪ- $ ˈrɑːndeɪ-/ noun (plural rendezvous /-vuːz/)

1 [countableC]MEET an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place, often secretly 〔常指秘密的〕约会；会面

rendezvous with

He made a rendezvous with her in Times Square.

他和她相约在时代广场见面。

plans for a secret rendezvous

秘密约会的计划

► see thesaurus at meeting

2 [countableC usually singular]MEET a place where two or more people have arranged to meet 约会地点

Boats picked us up at pre-arranged rendezvous.

船在预先约定的地点接我们。

3 [countableC]DL a bar, restaurant etc where people like to meet 热门聚会处〔指酒吧、饭店等〕

a popular rendezvous for media people

传媒界人士爱去的聚会场所

Examples from the Corpus

rendezvous• I am opposed to air mattresses at a rendezvous, personally.• One quick telephone call had booked the aircraft, another fixed a rendezvous with a fellow salesman.• I had a rendezvous in the dark.• Dexter and she would deliver Urquhart there for his rendezvous at seven o'clock that morning.• Their plan for a Paris rendezvous had collapsed.• I asked if he was going down to the rendezvous.• Old Town Square is one of Prague's best known tourist rendezvous.

rendezvous with• She flew to Paris for a secret rendezvous with Jean-Jacques.• The yacht was scheduled to rendezvous with a Coast Guard patrol on Monday.

rendezvous2 verb [intransitiveI]

1 MEETto meet someone at a time or place that was arranged earlier 〔在约定的时间或地点〕会面，相会 SYN meet up

rendezvous with

We’ll rendezvous with James in Nicosia.

我们将在尼科西亚和詹姆斯碰头。

2. if two spacecraft, aircraft, or military vehicles rendezvous, they meet, for example to move supplies from one to the other 〔航天器、飞机或军用车辆为调动补给等而〕会合

Examples from the Corpus

rendezvous• At seven p.m. she entered the wine bar where she had arranged to rendezvous.• The vehicle can then rendezvous and dock with the space station with little further expenditure of fuel.• The other participants in the meeting have to rendezvous at a similar studio, of which there are nine in Britain.• We rendezvous every morning near Blackfriars Bridge and get the first jobs over the radio.• But at weekends, they attempt to rendezvous over the Oxford marmalade, and on this occasion had succeeded.• You'd rendezvous with people at midnight at Covent Garden station.

Origin rendezvous1

(1500-1600) French “present yourselves!”

ren·dez·vous1 nounrendezvous2 verb

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