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date

UK/deɪt/ US/ˈdeɪt/ very common

noun

1.

the specified day of the month

  • “what is the date today?”
2.

a particular day specified as the time something will happen

  • “the date of the election is set by law”
3.

a meeting arranged in advance

  • “she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date”
4.

a particular but unspecified point in time

  • “they hoped to get together at an early date”
5.

the present

  • “they are up to date”
  • “we haven”
6.

a participant in a date

  • “his date never stopped talking”
Synonyms
7.

the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred

  • “he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class”

verb

1.

go on a date with

  • “Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart”
2.

stamp with a date

  • “The package is dated November 24”
Synonyms
3.

assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of

  • “Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings”
4.

date regularly; have a steady relationship with

  • “Did you know that she is seeing an older man?”
  • “He is dating his former wife again!”
5.

provide with a dateline; mark with a date

  • “She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated”

Origin

From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus (likely via Old Provençal datil), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”). Doublet of dactyl and dactylus. Displaced native Old English fingeræppel, literally "finger-apple".

Phrases

  • angel date
  • bear date
  • best before date
  • best-before date
  • best-by date
  • blackout date
  • blind date
  • catch a date
  • Chinese date
  • date back
  • date bread
  • date fish

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