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Rendezvous vs Convocation - What's the difference?

rendezvous | convocation |

As nouns the difference between rendezvous and convocation

is that rendezvous is rendezvous while convocation is the act of calling or assembling by summons.

rendezvous

English

Noun

  • A meeting or date.
    • I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
  • An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
    • “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
  • A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
  • (label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  • * Clarendon
    • The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
  • (obsolete) retreat; refuge
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (military) RV (abbreviation)

    Usage notes

    The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.

    Verb

  • To meet at an agreed time and place.
    • Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.

    See also

    * rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation English borrowed terms English terms derived from French ----

    convocation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of calling or assembling by summons.
  • An assembly or meeting.
  • An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
  • An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (academic assembly) (l)