trysting

Pluraltrystings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of tryst.

   The couple had been trysting in a rented cottage for months before anyone suspected.

   Trysting in secret grew harder once the whole village knew their faces.

   Note

   The verb can mean arranging or keeping any agreed meeting, but the -ing form leans toward lovers, as the noun tryst now does: a couple are trysting, colleagues are simply meeting. Before another noun it names where such meetings happen, as in a trysting place by the river.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   An arranged meeting at an agreed time and place, now often one between lovers.

   Each trysting had to be arranged by letter, since both families watched the pair closely.

   Rumors of late-night trystings in the orchard soon reached her father.

   Similarrendezvous, assignation, meeting

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