Date definition

dāt

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The day of the month.

noun

Date is defined as a particularly day of the month or day, month and year or a social outing between two people.

An example of date is October 9, 1925.

An example of date is two people meeting for coffee.

noun

An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.

noun

One's companion on such an outing.

noun

An appointment for a set time, esp. one for a social engagement with a person with whom one is having or considering having a romantic or sexual relationship.

noun

A person with whom one has such an engagement.

noun

To belong to, or have origin in, a definite period in the past.

verb

An engagement for a performance.

Has four singing dates this month.

noun

The time stated in terms of the day, month, and year.

What is the date of your birth?

noun

A statement of calendar time, as on a document.

noun

A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen.

The date of their wedding.

noun

The years of someone's birth and death.

Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.

noun

The sweet, edible, oblong or oval fruit of the date palm, containing a narrow, hard seed.

noun

A date palm.

noun

Such an engagement.

noun

To mark (a letter, etc.) with a date.

verb

To find out, determine, set, or record the date of.

verb

To assign a date to.

verb

To reckon by dates.

verb

To have a date or dates with.

verb

To show or reveal as typical of a certain period or age.

verb

To make seem old-fashioned or out-of-date.

verb

To be or seem outdated or old-fashioned.

verb

To have dates (see date.

I seldom dated while attending college.

verb

The sweet, fleshy fruit of the date palm, having a large, hard seed.

noun

Date palm.

noun

The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

We made a nice cake from dates.

noun

The date palm.

There were a few dates planted around the house.

noun

That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made.

The date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.

US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.

noun

The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.

The date for pleading.

Do you know the date of the wedding?

We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.

noun

A point in time.

You may need that at a later date.

noun

(rare) Assigned end; conclusion.

noun

George Chapman (translat), Homer (auth), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,

As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,

Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,

Both in his age to keep in peace his house,

And to have children wise and valorous.

noun

A pre-arranged social meeting.

I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.

noun

A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.

I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.

noun

A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after.

We slept together on the first date.

The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.

noun

To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

To date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.

verb

To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.

verb

To determine the age of something.

To date the building of the pyramids.

verb

To take (someone) on a series of dates.

verb

To have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with.

verb

(intransitive) Of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship.

verb

(intransitive) To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.

This show hasn't dated well.

verb

(intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

verb

A statement, as on a document or coin, specifying when it was made.

noun

The definition of date is to belong to a particular time period or to assign a time period to something or to go out with someone due to romantic interests.

An example of date is to make paper to look older by burning the edges.

An example of date is to determine that a photograph was taken in a specific year based on the clothing of the individuals in the photograph.

An example of date is for a man to take his girlfriend to the movies.

verb

The time during which something lasts; duration.

noun

The time or historical period to which something belongs.

Artifacts of a later date.

noun

An appointment.

A luncheon date with a client.

noun

To mark or supply with a date.

Date a letter.

verb

To determine the date of.

Date a fossil.

verb

To betray the age of.

Pictures of old cars date the book.

verb

To go on a date or dates with.

verb

To have origin in a particular time in the past.

This statue dates from 500 bc .

verb

To become old-fashioned.

verb

To go on dates.

verb

The time at which a thing happens or is done.

noun

The time that anything lasts or goes on.

noun

A person's birth and death dates, usually expressed in years.

noun

out of date

No longer in style; old-fashioned:

Clothes that went out of date last year.

idiom

to date

Until now:

To date, only half of those invited have responded.

idiom

up to date

In or into accordance with current information, styles, or technology:

Brought me up to date on the project's status.

idiom

to date

until now; as yet

idiom

up to date

in or into agreement with the latest facts, ideas, styles, etc.

idiom

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Singular:

date

Plural:

dates

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Origin of date

Middle English from Old French from Medieval Latin data from Latin data (Romae) issued (at Rome) (on a certain day) feminine past participle of dare to give dō- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old French from Old Provençal datil from Latin dactylus from Greek daktulos finger, date (from its shape)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From French datte, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (daktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably from a Semitic source such as Arabic دقل (dáqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”).

From Wiktionary
From Old French date, Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); akin to Greek, Old Slavonic dati, Sanskrit dā. Compare datum, dose, Dato, and Die.

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From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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