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Definition of Tryst
1. Noun. A date; usually with a member of the opposite sex.
Generic synonyms: Appointment, Date, Engagement
Derivative terms: Rendezvous
2. Noun. A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers).
Definition of Tryst
1. n. Trust.
2. v. t. To trust.
3. v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.
Definition of Tryst
1. Noun. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.). ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tryst
1. to agree to meet [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Tryst
1. 1. Trust. 2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. "The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile." (Tennyson) Origin: OE. Trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. Treysta to make trusty, fr. Traust confidence, security. See Trust. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tryst
Literary usage of Tryst
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1851)
"THE tryst OF FRIENDS. blossom itself to death ;" and such we will venture to ...
THE tryst OF FRIENDS. Suggested by meeting old Friends in the forest of ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst,
perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. ..."
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst,
perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. ..."
4. European Agriculture and Rural Economy. From Personal Observation by Henry Colman (1844)
"—FALKIRK tryst. The largest cattle market in the kingdom, uniting sheep and ...
The cattle and sheep exhibited at this tryst are almost altogether of the ..."
5. From the Hills of Dream: Threnodies, Songs, and Other Poems by William Sharp (1907)
"Gillanders reined and looked at her: " Hynde, Queen and Love," he said, " I wooed
in love, I come in love, to this the tryst we made: " Why are your eyes so ..."
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