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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | get-together |
| Synonyms: | affair, appointment, assignation, blind date, date, double date, engagement, heavy date, matinee, meet, meeting, one night stand, tryst, tête-à-tête |
| Main Entry: | rendezvous |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | meet, often secretly |
| Synonyms: | assemble, be closeted, be reunited, collect, come together, congregate, congress, converge, forgather, gather, get together, join up, meet behind closed doors, meet privately, muster, raise, rally |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
| Synonyms: | affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | appointment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting |
| Synonyms: | assignation, assignment, blind date, consultation, date, engagement, errand, gig, interview, invitation, meet, rendezvous, session, tryst, zero hour |
| Main Entry: | assignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clandestine meeting |
| Synonyms: | affair, appointment, date, engagement, heavy date, illicit meeting, love nest, one-night stand, quickie, rendezvous, secret meeting, tryst |
| Main Entry: | collect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accumulate, come together |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, amass, array, assemble, cluster, compile, congregate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock, flock together, gather, get hold of, group, heap, hoard, muster, rally, rendezvous, round up, save, scare up, stockpile |
| Antonyms: | dispense, disperse, disseminate, distribute, divide, scatter, share |
| Main Entry: | congregate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, come together |
| Synonyms: | besiege, bunch up, collect, concentrate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock*, forgather, gang around, gang up, gather, hang out*, make the scene, mass, meet, meet up, muster, pack, raise, rally, rendezvous, round up, swarm, teem, throng |
| Antonyms: | divide, scatter, separate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social engagement |
| Synonyms: | appointment, assignation, call, interview, meeting, rendezvous, tryst, visit |
| Main Entry: | dock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land on the waterfront |
| Synonyms: | anchor, berth, drop anchor, hook up, join, link up, moor, put in, rendezvous, tie up, unite |
| Notes: | a dock is the water next to a wharf or pier and it is not a solid thing, a wharf is built along and parallel to the shore, while a pier runs out and away from or at a right angle to the shore; dock was first a 'natural hollow or creek where a ship could stay at low water' |
| Antonyms: | set sail, ship out |
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