• IPA^(key):/deɪt/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-eɪt
• (MLE)IPA^(key):/ɖɪːʔ/

FromMiddle Englishdate, fromOld Frenchdate,datil,datille, fromLatindactylus, fromAncient Greekδάκτυλος(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 asArabicدَقَل(daqal,“variety of date palm”) orHebrewדֶּקֶל(deqel,“date palm”).

date (pluraldates)

2. Thefruit of thedate palm,Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of anolive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.[from 14th c.]

   We made a nice cake fromdates.

4. Thedate palm.[from 14th c.]

   There were a fewdates planted around the house.

5. (Australia,New Zealand) Theanus.[from 20th c.]
   • 1996,Peter Doyle,Get Rich Quick:

     The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off[…]. ‘He sure won't be stickingthat finger up hisdate again,’ said Max.

   • 2018,Melissa Lucashenko,Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published2023, page88:

     Black Superman could kiss hisdate, the little faggot.

• fruit

FromMiddle Englishdate, fromOld Frenchdate, fromLate Latindata, fromLatindatus(“given”), past participle ofdare(“to give”); fromProto-Indo-European*deh₃-(“to give”).Doublet ofdata.

date (pluraldates)

1. The addition to awriting,inscription,coin, etc., which specifies thetime (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

   thedate of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.

   USdate : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008.UKdate : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.

   • 1681,John Dryden,The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London:[…] Richard Tonson andJacob Tonson, […],→OCLC,(please specify the page number):

     And bonds without adate, they say, are void.

2. A specific day in time at which atransaction orevent takes place, or isappointed to take place; a given point of time.

   thedate for pleading

   The startdate for the festival is September 2.

   • 1844,Mark Akenside,The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II:

     He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd thedates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.

   Do you know thedate of the wedding?

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

3. Apoint in time.

   You may need that at a laterdate.

4. (rare) Anassignedend; aconclusion.
   • 1643,John Milton,Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

     But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmostdate in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted.

   • 1714,Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, inThe Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London:[…]W[illiam] Bowyer, forBernard Lintot, […], published1717,→OCLC:

     What Time would spare, from Steel receives itsdate.

5. (obsolete) Agiven orassignedlength oflife;duration.
   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London:[…] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC, stanza 45:

     Good luck prolonged hath thydate.

   • 1611-15,George Chapman (translator),Homer (author),The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV,^[1] lines 282–5,

     As now Saturnius, through his life's wholedate,

     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. Apre-arrangedmeeting.

   I arranged adate with my Australian business partners.

   • 1903,Guy Wetmore Carryl,The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page121:

     "Why, Mr.Nisbet! I thought you were in New York."
     "I had a telegram this morning, calling thedate off,"

7. One'scompanion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.

   I brought Melinda to the wedding as mydate.

9. Aromanticmeeting orouting with alover or potential lover, or the person so met.

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

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

• time

• → German:Date
• → Hebrew:דייט(deyt)
• → Hindi:डेट(ḍeṭ)
• → Japanese:デート(dēto)
• → Kashubian:dejta(Canada, United States)
• → Korean:데이트(deiteu)

date (third-person singular simple presentdates,present participledating,simple past and past participledated)

1. (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

   todate a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter

   • 1699,Joseph Addison,Letter to Rt. Hon. Charles Montagu, Esq., Blois, France; republished inLucy Aikin, chapter 3, inThe Life of Joseph Addison, volume 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,1843,page79:

     You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letterdated from Blois.

   • 1796 January 1,William Cobbett,A New Year's Gift to the Democrats, footnote; republished inPorcupine's Works, volume 2, London: For Cobbett and Morgan,1801,page430:

     I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter isdated at Philadelphia.

   • 1865,Matthew Arnold, “Marcus Aurelius”, inEssays in Criticism, London:Macmillan and Co. […],→OCLC,page281:

     In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it aredated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.

2. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
   • 1911, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume10, page202:

     The writerdates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.

3. (transitive) To determine the age of something.

   todate the building of the pyramids

4. (transitive) To take (someone) on adate, or a series of dates.
5. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.

   Synonyms:go out,see;see alsoThesaurus:date

   • 2008 May 15, “Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston”, inNEWS.com.au:

     Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer isdating Jennifer Aniston.

6. (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.

   Synonyms:go out,see;see alsoThesaurus:date

   They met a couple of years ago, but have beendating for about five months.

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

   Synonyms:age,elden,obsolesce;see alsoThesaurus:to age

   This show hasn'tdated well.

   The comediandated himself by making quips about bands from the 1960s.

   • 1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, inNature, volume230, number5296,→DOI, page603:

     In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this willdate a very useful little book prematurely.

8. (intransitive, withfrom) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
   • 1826,Edward Everett,The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France:

     The Batavian republicdates from the successes of the French arms.

   • 1963,Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:

     He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him[…] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. Theydated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, wallsdating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

• To note the time of writing one may saydated at orfrom a place.

• Sabbath
• calendar

• Daet,AEDT,TAED,Teda,tea'd,TA'ed,TAed,-ated,ated,tead,EDTA

date

1. Alternative form ofdzatse

FromEnglishdate.

• IPA^(key):/deɪt/
• Rhymes:-eɪt

date c (singular definitedaten,plural indefinitedates)

1. adate(meeting with a lover or potential lover)

   Synonyms:rendezvous,stævnemøde

• IPA^(key):/deɪte/
• Rhymes:-eɪte

date (imperativedate,infinitiveatdate,present tensedater,past tensedatede,perfect tensehardatet)

1. todate(someone)

• “date” inDen Danske Ordbog
• “date,2” inDen Danske Ordbog

Borrowed fromEnglishdate.

• IPA^(key):/deːt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:date
• Rhymes:-eːt

date m (pluraldates)

1. adate(romantic outing)

• blind date

• daten

Inherited fromOld Frenchdate, a borrowing fromLate Latindata, from the feminine ofLatindatus.

• IPA^(key):/dat/

• Audio:

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date f (pluraldates)

1. date(point in time)

• “date”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Borrowed fromEnglishdate.

• IPA^(key):/dɛjt/

date f (pluraldates)

1. (slang, anglicism)date(romantic meeting)

date m (pluraldates)

1. (slang, anglicism)date(person you go on a romantic meeting with)

• https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/clefsfp/index-fra.html?lang=fra&lettr=indx_catlog_d&page=9iwGrR_cgy6U.html

date

1. pastparticiple ofdar

• IPA^(key):/ˈda.te/
• Rhymes:-ate
• Hyphenation:dà‧te

date f

1. plural ofdata

date

1. inflection ofdare:
   1. second-personpluralpresentindicative
   2. second-personpluralimperative

date

1. feminineplural ofdato

• teda

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈda.te/,[ˈd̪ät̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈda.te/,[ˈd̪äːt̪e]

date

1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofdō

date

1. vocativemasculinesingular ofdatus

• deit(noun)
• deite(verb)

Borrowed fromEnglishdate.Doublet ofdato anddatum.

• (noun):IPA^(key):/dæɪ̯t/,/dɛɪ̯t/
• (verb):IPA^(key):/²dæɪ̯.tə/,/²dɛɪ̯.tə/

date m (definite singulardaten,indefinite pluraldater,definite pluraldatene)

1. a (romantic)date(pre-arranged meeting between two people)

   Synonyms:(romantic meeting)stevnemøte,(meeting)møte

2. aperson in relation to the other person on a date

date (present tensedater,past tensedataordatet,past participledataordatet,imperativedate)

1. (transitive,reciprocal) todate

• “date” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “date” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• deit(noun)
• data,deita,deite(verb)

Borrowed fromEnglishdate.Doublet ofdato anddatum.

• (noun):IPA^(key):/dæɪ̯t/,/dɛɪ̯t/
• (verb):IPA^(key):/²dæɪ̯.tə/,/²dɛɪ̯.tə/

date m (definite singulardaten,indefinite pluraldatar,definite pluraldatane)

1. a (romantic)date(pre-arranged meeting between two people)

   Synonyms:(romantic meeting)stemnemøte,(meeting)møte

2. aperson in relation to the other person on a date

date (present tensedatar,past tensedata,past participledata,imperativedate)

1. (transitive,reciprocal) todate

• “date” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key):/ˈda.tə/

Borrowed fromLate Latindata, from the feminine ofLatindatus(“given”).

dateoblique singular, f (oblique pluraldates,nominative singulardate,nominative pluraldates)

1. date(point in time)

• → English:date
• French:date

Borrowed fromOld Provençaldatil, fromLatindactylus.

dateoblique singular, f (oblique pluraldates,nominative singulardate,nominative pluraldates)

1. date(fruit)

• → English:date
• French:datte