Difference between Rendezvous and Tryst

What is the difference between Rendezvous and Tryst?

Rendezvous as a noun is a meeting or date. while Tryst as a noun is a prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

Rendezvous

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A meeting or date. An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To meet at an agreed time and place.

Example sentence: As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.

Tryst

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.A mutual agreement, a covenant.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

We hope you now know whether to use Rendezvous or Tryst in your sentence.

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