assignation

[US]/æsɪg'neɪʃ(ə)n/
[UK]/ˌæsɪɡ'neʃən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.appointment, secret meeting;allocation, designation

Example Sentences

his assignation with an older woman.

Real-world Examples

Today he had a different assignation. He turned not left but right, towards the Heath.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Yet how could he think her capable of deliberately wishing to renew their assignations now?

Source: Returning Home

I used your telephone to make an assignation with her'.

Source: A handsome face.

Up to the present this assignation had been icy.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Three)

You permitted your imagination to lead you astray with midnight assignations and passionate love scenes.

Source: Murder at the golf course

It read like a love affair, an assignation, though when and where were a blank.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Part Two)

It was a lover's assignation, pure and simple; and boldly realizing it as such he clasped her in his arms.

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps one's assignations with oneself.

Source: Idol speaks English fluently.

Happily, he had not, on this occasion, that artificial air which had made the assignation of the previous night a triumph rather than a pleasure.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part One)

Silas remembered where he was, and that the hour was already near at hand when he ought to be upon the scene of his assignation.

Source: New Arabian Nights (Volume 1)

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