• (America) IPA: /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/, /ˈɹɑndeɪ̯ˌvu/
• (British) IPA: /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/, /ˈɹɒndeɪ̯ˌvuː/

rendezvous

1. A meeting or date.

   I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.

   • 1845, Dublin University Magazine (volume 25, page 39)

     The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.

2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.

   “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”

3. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
   • 1821 January 7, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, Edinburgh; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 277979407 ↗:

4. (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.

   • The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.

5. (obsolete) Retreat, refuge.

• (military) RV (abbreviation)

• French: rendez-vous
• German: Rendezvous
• Portuguese: encontro
• Russian: свида́ние
• Spanish: encuentro, cita

• French: rendez-vous
• German: Rendezvous
• Portuguese: rendez-vous

rendezvous (rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing; past and past participle rendezvoused)

1. To meet at an agreed time and place.

   Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.

• French: se donner rendez-vous, se rencontrer, se rejoindre