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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

keep tryst en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) To wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
    • Mr. Venus undertook to produce it again in the morning, and to keep tryst with Mr. Wegg on Boffin's doorstep as the clock struck ten. 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
keeping tryst Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
kept tryst Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
kept tryst Tense=Past lexicographic
keeps tryst Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

bide tryst