HOW TO PRONOUNCE
rendezvous
/ˈɹɑndəˌvu/
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Stress the first syllable.
Stress the first syllable. The singular ends with voo, without an s sound.
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“A rendezvous at noon.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does rendezvous mean?
noun
- A meeting or date.
- An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
- A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- (obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
verb
- To meet at an agreed time and place.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɑndəˌvu/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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A rendezvous, a home to fly unto, If that the devil and mischance look big Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
Would a nice girl, even allowing for her being a little American flirt, make a rendezvous with a presumably low-lived foreigner?
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One after another would be missed by some friend or trader at the autumn rendezvous, reported killed by the Indians, and—forgotten.
On her way to the rendezvous the Agamemnon encountered a terrific gale, which lasted for a week, and nearly proved her destruction.
The rendezvous appointed for meeting the others, in case we had not previously caught them up, was eighteen miles south-east of Aladdin's Cave.