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• acquaintance
• bump into someone
• counter-rally
• cross someone's path/cross paths with someone idiom
• make yourself known idiom
• muster point
• paths cross idiom
• pay your respects idiom
• power breakfast
• power lunch
• re-encounter

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What does the noun assignation mean?

There are 11 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun assignation , four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

assignation has developed meanings and uses in subjects including

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Middle English

The earliest known use of the noun assignation is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).

OED's earliest evidence for assignation is from before 1400, in Coventry Mysteries .

assignation is a borrowing from French.

Etymons: French assignacion .

Nearby entries

• assified, adj. 1818–
• assify, v. 1804–
• assign, n.¹ 1601–41
• assign, n.² c1450–
• assign, v. 1297–
• assignability, n. 1884–
• assignable, adj. 1659–
• assignably, adv. 1674–
• assignat, n. 1790–
• assignate, adj. 1471
• assignation, n. a1400–
• assigned, adj. c1374–
• assignee, adj. & n. 1419–
• assigneeism, n. 1883–
• assigneeship, n. 1829–
• assigner, n. 1667–
• assigning, n. 1580–
• assignment, n. 1393–
• assignor, n. 1690–
• assilag, n. 1698–
• assimilability, n. a1834–

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assignation, n. was first published in 1885; not yet revised.

assignation, n. was last modified in September 2023.

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• 1.1 Etymology
• 1.2 Pronunciation
• 1.3.1 Usage notes
• 1.3.2 Derived terms
• 1.3.3 Translations
• 1.4 Anagrams
• 2.1 Etymology
• 2.2 Pronunciation
• 2.3.1 Related terms
• 2.4 Further reading

English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ].

From Middle English assignacioun , from Old French assignacion , from Latin assīgnātiō .

Pronunciation [ edit ]

• IPA ( key ) : /æsɪɡˈneɪʃən/

Noun [ edit ]

assignation ( countable and uncountable , plural assignations )

• 1714 , Alexander Pope , “ The Rape of the Lock ”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope , volume I, London: [ … ] W [ illiam ] Bowyer , for Bernard Lintot ,   [ … ] , published 1717 , →OCLC , canto III: While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
• 1749 , [John Cleland ], “ (Please specify the letter or volume) ”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [ Fanny Hill ], London: [ … ] G. Fenton [ i.e. , Fenton and Ralph Griffiths ]   [ … ] , →OCLC : 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 .
• 1986 , John le Carré , A Perfect Spy : What assignations followed we can never know, except that, according to Morrie, Rick did once boast that there was more than cake and lemon barley waiting for him up at The Glades when he delivered the church magazine.
• 1996 , David Foster Wallace , Infinite Jest   [ … ] , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company , →ISBN , page 30 : ‘That you could dare to imagine we’d fail conversationally to countenance certain weekly shall we say maternal … assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard’s tactical-bands unit?’
• 1659 , T[itus] Livius [ i.e. , Livy ], “ (please specify the book number) ”, in Philemon Holland , transl., The Romane Historie   [ … ] , London: [ … ] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge,   [ … ] , →OCLC : This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
• A making over by transfer of title ; assignment .

Usage notes [ edit ]

Modern usage confines the word to mean an agreed-upon place for illicit sex, but earlier usage is broader, and considerably more innocent.

Derived terms [ edit ]

• house of assignation

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Anagrams [ edit ].

• saginations

French [ edit ]

From Old French assignacion , from Latin assīgnātiō .

• IPA ( key ) : /a.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃/

assignation   f ( plural assignations )

• ( law ) summons , subpoena

Related terms [ edit ]

Further reading [ edit ].

• “ assignation ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .

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Definition of assignment noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• Students are required to complete all homework assignments.
• You will need to complete three written assignments per semester.
• a business/special assignment
• I had set myself a tough assignment.
• on an assignment She is in Greece on an assignment for one of the Sunday newspapers.
• on assignment one of our reporters on assignment in China
• The students handed in their assignments.
• The teacher gave us an assignment on pollution.
• Why did you take on this assignment if you're so busy?
• He refused to accept the assignment.
• assignment on

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