Tryst
[traɪst] or [trɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex.
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Definition
(n.) Trust.
(n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.
(n.) To trust.
(n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
(v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Scottish.] Appointment (to meet), appointed meeting.
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Definition
n. an appointment to meet: appointed place of meeting: a market.—v.t. to make an appointment with.—v.i. to agree to meet.—ns. Trys′ter; Trys′ting-day a fixed day of meeting; Trys′ting-place an arranged meeting-place.—Bide tryst to wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
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Examples
- Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The only fear was lest the heiress should not be punctual to tryst. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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