Date definition
An example of date is October 9, 1925.
An example of date is two people meeting for coffee.
Has four singing dates this month.
What is the date of your birth?
The date of their wedding.
Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.
There were a few dates planted around the house.
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.
You may need that at a later date.
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.
I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.
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.
To date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
To date the building of the pyramids.
This show hasn't dated well.
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.
Artifacts of a later date.
A luncheon date with a client.
Date a letter.
Date a fossil.
Pictures of old cars date the book.
This statue dates from 500 bc .
- No longer in style; old-fashioned:Clothes that went out of date last year.
- Until now:To date, only half of those invited have responded.
- In or into accordance with current information, styles, or technology:Brought me up to date on the project's status.
- until now; as yet
- in or into agreement with the latest facts, ideas, styles, etc.
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
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
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