Tryst Definition

trĭst
trysts
noun
trysts
An appointment made secretly by lovers to meet at a specified time and place.
Webster's New World
Any such meeting.
Webster's New World
The place of such a meeting.
Webster's New World
verb
trysts
To keep a tryst.
Webster's New World
(intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
Wiktionary

To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Tryst

Noun

Singular:
tryst
Plural:
trysts

Origin of Tryst

  • From Middle English tryst, trist, a variant (due to the Old Norse verb treysta (“to make safe, secure")) of trust, trost, from Old Norse traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode"), from Proto-Germanic *traustÄ… (“trust, shelter"), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drÅ«- (“to be firm, be solid"). More at trust.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English trist from Old French triste a waiting place (in hunting) deru- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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