Meeting vs. Rendezvous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Meeting and Rendezvous
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Meeting
A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Many various types of meetings exist.
Rendezvous
A meeting at a prearranged time and place.
Meeting
The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
Rendezvous
A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
Meeting
An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.
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Rendezvous
A popular gathering place
The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.
Meeting
The act of persons or things that meet.
Meeting him will be exciting.
I enjoy meeting new people.
Rendezvous
(Aerospace) The process of bringing two spacecraft together.
Meeting
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
We need to have a meeting about that soon.
Rendezvous
To bring or come together at a rendezvous.
Meeting
(collective) The people at such a gathering.
What has the meeting decided.
Rendezvous
A meeting or date.
I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
Meeting
An encounter between people, even accidental.
They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
Rendezvous
An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
Meeting
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
Rendezvous
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
Meeting
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
Rendezvous
(military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
Meeting
(Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Rendezvous
(rocketry) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
Meeting
Present participle of meet
Rendezvous
(obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
Meeting
A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
Rendezvous
To meet at an agreed time and place.
Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
Meeting
A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
Rendezvous
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers.
Meeting
A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.
Rendezvous
Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
Meeting
An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; - in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
Rendezvous
A meeting by appointment.
Meeting
A formally arranged gathering;
Next year the meeting will be in Chicago
The meeting elected a chairperson
Rendezvous
Retreat; refuge.
Meeting
The social act of assembling for some common purpose;
His meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day
Rendezvous
To assemble or meet at a particular place.
Meeting
A small informal social gathering;
There was an informal meeting in my livingroom
Rendezvous
To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.
Meeting
A casual or unexpected convergence;
He still remembers their meeting in Paris
There was a brief encounter in the hallway
Rendezvous
A meeting planned at a certain time and place
Meeting
The act of joining together as one;
The merging of the two groups occurred quickly
There was no meeting of minds
Rendezvous
A place where people meet;
He was waiting for them at the rendezvous
Meeting
A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers);
Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
Rendezvous
A date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
Rendezvous
Meet at a rendezvous
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