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tryst

Pronunciation: /tɹɪst/

The English word “tryst” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
  2. A mutual agreement, a covenant.
  3. A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.

verb

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

Etymology

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, 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 *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”).…

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