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Tryst - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun tryst

is a prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

As a verb tryst

is to make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.

tryst

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
  • * Tennyson
  • The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
  • * 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
  • But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
  • * 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
  • If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst , then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
  • (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
  • To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
  • To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
  • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.