tryst
To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a placeTo make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
» Alleged phone conversations with a mistress detail daily activities, including sexual trysts.
Meaning
3 senses(intransitive)To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
назначить встречу
(transitive)To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
(intransitive)To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
прийти на встречу
Examples
2 sentencesAlleged phone conversations with a mistress detail daily activities, including sexual trysts.
Yanni and Vladimir met for a midnight tryst.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointFrom 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”). Doublet of trust, see there for more.
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Forms
trysts, trysting, trysted, trystedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle