assignation
(noun)
noun
1. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
Similar word(s): tryst
Definition categories: act, rendezvous
2. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
Similar word(s): allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling
Definition categories: act, distribution
Sentences with assignation as a noun:
- 1749 As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his assignation. — John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill.