Rendezvous vs Idiot - What's the difference?
rendezvous | idiot |
A meeting or date.
An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
* Clarendon
(obsolete) retreat; refuge
To meet at an agreed time and place.
(pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
(obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.
As nouns the difference between rendezvous and idiot
is that rendezvous is rendezvous while idiot is (slang|derogatory) a proponent of intelligent design.rendezvous
English
Noun
- I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
- “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
- an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
- The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (military) RV (abbreviation)Usage notes
The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.Verb
- 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 ----idiot
English
Alternative forms
* eejit * idjit, idget (eye dialect)Noun
(en noun)- usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.