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An assignation is a secret meeting, especially with someone you are in a romantic relationship with — or wish you were. The word has a slightly old, storybook flavour: lovers slipping out, a note, a side door. Though actually, today people mostly use it with a smile or a raised , not as a serious diary word. Newspapers still like it for a politician caught meeting someone they should not. It is not your Tuesday lunch with a colleague. In ordinary talk people say “a secret meeting” or, less kindly, something blunter; assignation keeps a little perfume of old novels, which is why it often sounds humorous even when the meeting is real.
組成From Middle English assignacioun, from Old French assignacion, from Latin assīgnātiō.
同家族的字
- assignsame Latin family: to give or set something to someone
- assignmentsame family, but this common word means a task or homework, not a secret meeting
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
assignationnoun/æsɪɡˈneɪʃən/
- 1
An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
- While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
- 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.
- 2
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
- This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
- 3
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。