Rendezvous vs Vacation - What's the difference?
rendezvous | vacation |
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.
Freedom from some business or activity.
(obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
*, II.28:
A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
(North America) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
The act of vacating something; moving out.
(US, legal) The act of making legally void.
As nouns the difference between rendezvous and vacation
is that rendezvous is rendezvous while vacation is freedom from some business or activity.As a verb vacation is
to spend or take a vacation.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 ----vacation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The first exploited his, sundrie waies, and excelleth in military exploits, and utilitie of his publike vacations .
- The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.