a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
a meeting set for a specific time or place: I'm late for my appointment.
the act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: to fill a vacancy by appointment.
an office, position, or the like, to which a person is appointed: He received his appointment as ambassador to Italy.
Usually appointments.equipment, furnishings, or accouterments.
appointments,accouterments for a soldier or a horse.
Manège. a horse-show class in which the contestant need not be a member of a hunt but must wear regulation hunt livery.Compare Corinthian (def. 9).
Archaic. decree; ordinance.
Origin of appointment
1375–1425; late Middle English apoynt(e)ment<Middle French ap(p)ointement.See appoint, -ment
SYNONYMS FOR appointment
1, 2 assignation, rendezvous, tryst, date.
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4. Appointment,office,post,station all refer to kinds of duty or employment. Appointment refers to a position to which one is assigned, as by a high government official. Office often suggests a position of trust or authority. Post is usually restricted to a military or other public position, as of a diplomat, although it may also refer to a teaching position. Both post and station may refer to the place where a person is assigned to work.