# tryst

Pronunciation: say "TRIST" /tɹɪst/

## Noun

1. A meeting arranged in advance, now especially one between lovers at an agreed time and place.
   - Simple: A meeting planned ahead, often between two lovers at a set time and place.
   - _The couple slipped away for a midnight tryst in the rose garden._
   - _Their weekly trysts at a quiet cafe went on for months before anyone noticed._

## Verb

2. To keep an arranged meeting, coming together at the agreed place and time.
   - Simple: To meet someone at the time and place that was agreed.
   - _Spies who tryst at the same park bench every month are easy to catch._
   - _Rumors spread that the actor had been trysting with his co-star between takes._
3. To arrange a meeting, agreeing with someone on a time and place to meet, often secretly as lovers.
   - Simple: To agree with someone on a time and place to meet, often in secret.

## Noun

4. An agreement made between two or more parties that binds each to the other; a covenant. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A promise or deal that two people or groups make to each other.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A market fair, especially one held regularly on a set schedule, where livestock was bought and sold.

## Origin

Old Norse treysta, meaning "to make safe, secure," which was based on traust ("confidence, trust, shelter"), or some other North Germanic source probably gave Old French triste ("a waiting place, an appointed station in hunting"). This became Middle English tryst or trist. The word is a doublet of trust.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tryst (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).