appoint

Meaning

1. To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
2. To name (someone to a post or role).
3. To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
4. To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
5. To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
6. (obsolete) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
7. (obsolete) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

Hyphenated as

ap‧point

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈpɔɪnt/

Etymology

From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.