Date

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English

Noun

Date (plural Dates)
  1. (botany) The fruit of the date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
  2. (botany) The date palm itself.

Derived terms

Noun

Date (plural Dates)
  1. 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; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
  2. 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.
    • Mark Akenside,
      He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
  3. A point in time, as in You may need that at a later date.
  4. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
    • Alexander Pope,
      What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
  5. (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
    • Edmund Spenser,
      Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
    • George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV,[1] 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.
  6. A pre-arranged social meeting.
  7. A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
  8. A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

Derived terms

Verb

Date (third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated)

  1. (transitive) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
    The letter is dated at Philadephia. - G. T. Curtis
    You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. - Joseph Addison
    In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. - M. Arnold
  2. (transitive) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
  3. (transitive) To determine the age of something; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
  4. (transitive) To take (someone) on a series of dates.
  5. (transitive) to have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with
    • May 15 2008, NEWS.com.au - Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston
      Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex- boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
  6. (intransitive) of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship
  7. (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.
  8. (intransitive) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from
    The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. - E. Everett

Adjectives for Date

ineffective; arbitrary; fixed; exact; recent; ancient; prescribed; decisive; closing; historical; equivalent; significant; future; remote; immediate; memorable; subsequent; calamitous; lasting; endless; tentative; dark; dividing; equinoctial.

Verbs

ascribe—to; assign—to; bear—; calculate—; cancel—; confirm—; denote—; determine—; extend—; fix—; forestall—; in¬scribe—; insert—; jot down—; limit to—; mark with—; reckon—; refer to—; require—; set—; specify—; —denotes; —expires.

Adverbs for Date

variously; significantly; recently; historically; tentatively; unquestionably; subsequently.

Thesaurus

International Date Line, Platonic year, accompany, aeon, age, ancient, annus magnus, antedate, antiquate, antiquated, appointment, archaic, arrangement, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, backdate, ball, be dated, bear date, beau, become extinct, become obsolete, blind date, booking, borscht circuit, boy, boyfriend, brawl, bunch, bunch up, captive, catch, caucus, circuit, clot, cluster, collect, colloquium, come together, commission, committee, companion, conclave, concourse, congregate, congregation, congress, conquest, contemporary, conventicle, convention, converge, convocation, copulate, coquette, council, couple, court, crowd, current, cycle, cycle of indiction, dance, date at, date line, date-stamp, dated, dateline, datemark, day, diet, double date, eisteddfod, engagement, engagement book, entertain, epoch, era, escort, fade, fashionable, festivity, fete, fixture, flirt, flock together, flow together, forgather, forgathering, forum, fossilize, friend, fuse, fust, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gathering, generation, get-together, girl, great year, grow old, herd together, hive, honey, horde, housewarming, huddle, indiction, interview, latest, league, levee, link, lose currency, lover, make a date, man, mass, meet, meeting, merge, mill, modern, molder, muster, obsolesce, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, out of date, outdate, outmoded, panel, party, passe, period, perish, phase, playing engagement, plenum, point of time, postdate, predate, prom, quorum, rally, rally around, reception, rendezvous, run, rust, seance, season, see, seethe, session, set the date, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, stage, stand, steady, stream, superannuate, surge, swain, swarm, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, symposium, synod, take out, throng, time, tour, trendy, tryst, turnout, unite, update, vamp, vampire, vaudeville circuit, woman, woo, year

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French datte, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (“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”).

Etymology 2

From 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, Die

Translations

Noun

fruit of the date palm
date palm — see date palm

Noun

that which specifies the time of writing, inscription etc.
point of time at which a transaction or event takes place
point in time
assigned end; conclusion
obsolete: given or assigned length of life
pre-arranged social meeting
companion when one is partaking in a social occasion
meeting with a lover or potential lover; a person so met

Verb

to note the time of writing or executing
to note or fix the time of, as of an event
to determine the age of something
to take (someone) on a series of dates
to become old
to begin
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Notes

  • (To note the time of writing): We may say dated at or from a place.

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Anagrams

Aromanian

Etymology

Latin decem

Numeral

Date

  1. (cardinal) ten

French

Pronunciation

Noun

Date f. (plural Dates)

  1. date (point in time)

Interlingua

Participle

date

  1. past participle of dar

Italian

Noun

date f.

  1. Plural form of data.

Verb

date

  1. second-person plural present tense of dare
  2. second-person plural imperative of dare
  3. feminine plural of dato, past participle of dare

Latin

Verb

date

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dō

Participle

date

  1. vocative masculine singular of datus

Old French

Noun

Date f. (oblique plural Dates, nominative singular Date, nominative plural Dates)

  1. date (fruit)

Spanish

Verb

Date (infinitive dar)

  1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun te.
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