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Definition tryst

Etymology

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traust? (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *dr?- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust (which see).

Noun

tryst (plural trysts)

1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
2. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.

Verb

tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)

1. (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
2. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
3. (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

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