rendezvous

Meanings

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. The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
5. A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
6. A retreat or refuge.

1. To meet at an agreed time and place.

Etymology

Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.