as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
a midnight assignation between adulterers at a downtown hotel
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Recent Examples of assignation
Handsome when not in costume, Chaplin was catnip to women and reckless in his assignations.
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Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
Seems the Trump rally leaping, advertiser losing and Kamala Harris assignation joking Musk is the issue, as is so often the case in such suits of late.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The musician, Ansel Fleming (Ivy typically refers to him by his full name, like Charlie Brown), has come not for an assignation but, rather, for a sort of blind date.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
Seems the Trump rally leaping, advertiser losing and Kamala Harris assignation joking Musk is the issue, as is so often the case in such suits of late.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The musician, Ansel Fleming (Ivy typically refers to him by his full name, like Charlie Brown), has come not for an assignation but, rather, for a sort of blind date.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assignation
Noun
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The Italian filmmaker and designer also worked together on a short film for Loewe, for which Anderson previously served as creative director prior to his appointment with Dior.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
21 July 2025
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Nance is also exploring volunteer opportunities with Legal Aid of Arkansas after her appointment as dean ends.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
21 July 2025
Noun
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This is a great time to date, express yourself artistically, or spend time with kids or inner child work.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
24 July 2025
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He is being held in the Carroll County Jail on $1 million bond and has a court date set for Aug. 4, according to the jail roster.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
23 July 2025
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The spacecraft will use its return to Earth to make a gravity slingshot maneuver to send it onto the next step of its journey: a rendezvous with the main belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS, which will occur around 2035.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
17 July 2025
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Back at the rendezvous point, Pike is giving two frustrating bits of news.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
17 July 2025
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“Assignation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignation. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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