appoint.
To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
Meaning & usage
To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
To name (someone to a post or role).
To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.