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TRYST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tryst mean? 

TRYST (noun)
  The noun TRYST has 2 senses:

1. a date; usually with a member of the opposite sexplay

2. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)play

  Familiarity information: TRYST used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TRYST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A date; usually with a member of the opposite sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

rendezvous; tryst

Hypernyms ("tryst" is a kind of...):

appointment; date; engagement (a meeting arranged in advance)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assignation; tryst

Hypernyms ("tryst" is a kind of...):

rendezvous (a meeting planned at a certain time and place)


 Context examples 


There is a great oak near here, and I think that Bertrand will bring the horses there, for it is an old hunting-tryst of ours.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, if the obvious reading of it is correct, and in order to keep the tryst one has to ascend a main stair and seek the seventh door in a corridor, it is perfectly clear that the house is a very large one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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