tryst

Meaning

Noun

1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
2. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
3. A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.

Verb

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

Synonyms

rendezvous

date

📅

assignation

meeting

appointment

clandestine meeting

engagement

meet

encounter

meetings

contact

come up against

encounters

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɪst/

Etymology

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust (which see).