Meaning of TRYST
Pronunciation: | | trist
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- [n] a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- [n] a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
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| Synonyms: | | assignation, rendezvous |
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| See Also: | | appointment, date, engagement, rendezvous | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Tryst\, n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf.
Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence,
security. See {Trust}, n.]
1. Trust. [Obs.]
2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time
of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or
Poetic]
{To bide tryst}, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with
whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement
or appointment.
The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at
village stile. --Tennyson.
\Tryst\, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See {Tryst}, n.]
1. To trust. [Obs.]
2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an
appointment with. [Scot.] --Burns.
\Tryst\, v. i.
To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]
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