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Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/October 16

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Word of the day
for October 16
rendezvous n
  1. A meeting or date.
  2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
  3. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  4. (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  5. (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
  6. (obsolete) A retreat or refuge.

rendezvous v

  1. (intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.

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