Rendezvous



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 约会; 约会地点
• ［英］ n. 约会 ( a meeting at an appointed place and time) ; 约会地点 ( a place appointed for meeting)
• ［记］ 法语: rendez ( =present) +vous ( =yourself) -> 现出你自己 -> 约会

Webster Collegiate

I. noun (plural rendezvous)

• Etymology: Middle French, from rendez vous present yourselves
• Date: 1582
• 1.
  • a. a place appointed for assembling or meeting
  • b. a place of popular resort ; haunt
• 2. a meeting at an appointed place and time
• 3. the process of bringing two spacecraft together

II. verb (rendezvoused; rendezvousing; rendezvouses)

• Date: 1645
• intransitive verb
  • to come together at a rendezvous
• transitive verb
  • 1. to bring together at a rendezvous
  • 2. to meet at a rendezvous

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