1
as in haunt
a place for spending time or for socializing
the arcade was the rendezvous of choice for most of the teenagers in town
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2
as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
I have a rendezvous with him at lunchtime
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as in to meet
to come together into one body or place
we'll rendezvous at the entrance to the park at 6:00 p.m.
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Recent Examples of rendezvous
Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
The capsule and the moon will pass each other in three days — the moon is traveling at thousands of miles an hour itself, and is still over 150,000 miles from the rendezvous.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
However, unlike the X-37B, Shenlong has rendezvoused with other objects in space.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Feb. 2026
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Noun
And with those words from Mission Control on April 2, the Artemis II astronauts were given the green light to fire up their engine, leave Earth orbit and head for their historic rendezvous with the moon.
—Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
The capsule and the moon will pass each other in three days — the moon is traveling at thousands of miles an hour itself, and is still over 150,000 miles from the rendezvous.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
Instead the agency will rejigger its planned Artemis III mission to test in-orbit capabilities such as using the astronauts’ space suits in microgravity and rendezvousing with at least one of the spacecraft that NASA hopes to use as a lunar lander.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
However, unlike the X-37B, Shenlong has rendezvoused with other objects in space.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rendezvous
Noun
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By the early summer, most of the bass have finished spawning in the shallows and have now pushed back to deeper water to find their summer haunts.—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
2 Apr. 2026
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There’s a lot of historical buildings from 75 years ago that are favored haunts, and then there’s a lot of rock ‘n’ roll clubs from 50 years ago, like the Troubadour and the Whisky a-Go-Go.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Stuart Kaufman, a Plantation attorney who was diagnosed with cancer, said his advocate Amanda Millman went with him to his first chemotherapy appointment and his last radiation treatment.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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Parliament Speaker Aung Lin Dwe said the appointments of 30 ministers were approved with no objections.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Within three days of the Da Nang landing in 1965, a group of professors at the University of Michigan met to discuss a response.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Politics, waivers, and environmental concerns Under the Biden-era rule, coke plants were supposed to start meeting new limits on leaks from the lids and doors of ovens that heat coal.—
Stephanie Armour,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The song is intercut back to the women speculating about how awkward the male hangout must be, but the men actually break out in rock and roll jumpsuits.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
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The club grew large and powerful quickly, and formed branches in surrounding areas and high schools so other Latins could join and have hangouts of their own.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Town leaders must now arrange a date for a meeting of summit participants.—
Juli McDonald,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Stock Chart IconStock chart icon Universal Music shares year to date.—
April Roach,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But now campaign organizations are converging on the race as the fast-growing Phoenix area becomes a destination for data centers and semiconductor factories.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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The paper’s starkest finding is that labor’s share of GDP converges to zero.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Quick, tight, and dense, TDS gathers the latest automotive headlines from around the globe and places them all in one spot.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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In it, Dekeyser assembles a history and taxonomy of the refusal of technologies, even ones that humans had come to depend on in their daily lives.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
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Olivia Bannerman, a 28-year-old software designer and part-time model, was standing on a rock in Central Park with her statuesque golden retriever, Violet, waiting for a quorum to assemble.—
Rachel Sugar,
Curbed,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Rendezvous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rendezvous. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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