date

• IPA^(key): /deɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus, 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”).

date (plural dates)

1. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

   We made a nice cake from dates.

2. The date palm.

   There were a few dates planted around the house.

From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).

date (plural dates)

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

   the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.

   US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.

   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar

     And bonds without a date, they say, are void.

2. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.

   the date for pleading

   The start date 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 the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.

   Do you know the date of the wedding?

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

3. A point in time.

   You may need that at a later date.

4. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope,

     What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.

5. (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser,

     Good luck prolonged hath thy date.

   • (Can we date this quote?) George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV, 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 meeting.

   I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.

   • 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121:

     "Why, Mr. Nisbet! I thought you were in New York."

     "I had a telegram this morning, calling the date off,"

7. One's companion for social activities or occasions.

   I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.

8. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

   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.

• → German: Date

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison

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

   • 1801 [1796 January], William Cobbett, A New Year's Gift, Porcupine's works, footnote, page 430,

     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 is dated at Philadelphia.

   • 1913 [1863], Marcus Aurelius, George Long (translator), Matthew Arnold (essay), The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus, G. Bell and Sons, page 227,

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

   to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter

2. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
3. (transitive) To determine the age of something.

   to date the building of the pyramids

4. (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
5. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
   • 2008 May 15, 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. (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.

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

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, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edward Everett

     The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:

     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. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating 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 say dated at or from a place.

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• calendar

• AEDT, EDTA, TAED, tead

date

1. Alternative form of dzatse

From English date.

date c (singular definite daten, plural indefinite dates)

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

• IPA^(key): /deɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

• stævnemøde
• rendezvous

date (imperative date, infinitive at date, present tense dater, past tense datede, perfect tense har datet)

1. to date (someone)

• IPA^(key): /deɪte/
• Rhymes: -eɪte

• “date” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “date,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old French date, a borrowing from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin datus.

• IPA^(key): /dat/

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date f (plural dates)

1. date (point in time)

• “date” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

date

1. past participle of dar

date f

1. plural of data

date

1. second-person plural present of dare
2. second-person plural imperative of dare

date

1. feminine plural of dato

date

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dō

date

1. vocative masculine singular of datus

date c (plural dates)

1. date (point in time)

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin data.

date f (oblique plural dates, nominative singular date, nominative plural dates)

1. date (point in time)
2. date (fruit)

• → English: date
• French: date

date

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of datar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of datar
3. first-person singular imperative of datar
4. third-person singular imperative of datar

date

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