Rencontre

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A chance meeting or encounter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as rencounter, n.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In billiards, that kiss-shot, so called, in which the cue-ball drives the first object-ball against the second and meets the latter on its return from cushion.
  • Word Usage
    "We had better have it what they call a rencontre down there, where two gentlemen propose to kill each other on sight."
    Variant
    rencounter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    trouvera    prend    serait    insiste    pourroit    disoit    trouve    etait    gagne    devait