date

/deit/

Definition

Noun:
- A sweet edible fruit: A small, brown, oval fruit from the date palm tree, with a single hard seed inside.
- A specific day: A particular day of the month or year, often given by a number (e.g., May 5, 2023).
- An appointment or social meeting: A planned time to meet someone, especially a romantic meeting between two people.
- The person you meet romantically: The person with whom you have a romantic appointment.
Verb:
- To write a date on something: To mark something with the day, month, and year.
- To determine the age or time period of something: To find out when something old was made or happened.
- To go out with someone romantically: To regularly spend time with someone as a romantic partner.
- To become old-fashioned: To seem or become out of date.

Examples

Noun (Fruit):
- She ate a sweet date for a snack.
Noun (Specific Day):
- What is the date of your birthday?
- The date on the letter was smudged.
Noun (Romantic Meeting):
- They went on a date to the cinema.
Noun (Romantic Partner):
- My date was very polite.
Verb (Write a date):
- Please date and sign the document.
Verb (Determine age):
- Scientists can date these bones to the Stone Age.
Verb (Go out romantically):
- Is he dating anyone?
Verb (Become old-fashioned):
- That style of music has dated badly.

Advanced Usage

"To date": Until now.
- To date, we have received fifty applications.
"Out of date": No longer valid, modern, or useful; expired.
- This milk is out of date.
- His information is out of date.
"Up to date": Modern, current, or having the latest information.
- Keep your software up to date.
- Are you up to date with the news?
"Date back to": To have existed since a particular time in the past.
- This tradition dates back to the 18th century.

Variants and Related Words

Dated (adj): Old-fashioned.
- His clothes look very dated.
Dater (n): A person who goes on dates.
Dateline (n): A line in a newspaper article showing the date and place of writing.
Date palm (n): The tree that produces dates.

Synonyms

Related Phrasal Verbs

Date back to (phrasal verb): To have originated in a particular past time.
- The castle dates back to the Norman era.
Date from (phrasal verb): Same as "date back to".
- The artifact dates from the Bronze Age.

Related Idioms

"Blind date": A date between two people who have not met before, arranged by a third person.
- My friend set me up on a blind date.
"Double date": A social outing where two couples go together.
- We went on a double date with our friends.
"Make a date": To arrange to meet someone.
- Let's make a date for lunch next week.
"At a later date": At some unspecified time in the future.
- We will discuss this at a later date.

Noun

sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the date of the election is set by law
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
the present
- they are up to date
- we haven't heard from them to date
a particular but unspecified point in time
- they hoped to get together at an early date
a meeting arranged in advance
- she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
a participant in a date
- his date never stopped talking
the specified day of the month
- what is the date today?

Verb

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
date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- Did you know that she is seeing an older man?
- He is dating his former wife again!
assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings
stamp with a date
- The package is dated November 24
go on a date with
- Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart

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