date
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: dates
form: dating
form: dated
form: dated
Etymology: 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”). Doublet of data.
Senses: examples: text: to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
text: You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
ref: 1699, Joseph Addison, Letter to Rt. Hon. Charles Montagu, Esq., Blois, France; republished in Lucy Aikin, chapter 3, in The Life of Joseph Addison, volume 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, page 79:
text: 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.
ref: 1796 January 1, William Cobbett, A New Year's Gift to the Democrats, footnote; republished in Porcupine's Works, volume 2, London: For Cobbett and Morgan, 1801, page 430:
text: 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.
ref: 1865, Matthew Arnold, “Marcus Aurelius”, in Essays in Criticism, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
examples: text: The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 202:
glosses: To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
examples: text: to date the building of the pyramids
glosses: To determine the age of something.
glosses: To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
examples: text: Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
ref: 2008 May 15, “Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston”, in NEWS.com.au:
synonyms: go out
see
glosses: To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
examples: text: They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.
synonyms: go out
see
glosses: To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
examples: text: This show hasn't dated well.
text: The comedian dated himself by making quips about bands from the 1960s.
text: In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.
ref: 1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 603:
synonyms: age
elden
obsolesce
glosses: To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
examples: text: The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
ref: 1826, Edward Everett, The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France:
text: 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.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
glosses: To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
raw_tags: with from
Synonyms: word: date
word: go out [with]
word: go with
word: go together
word: hang together
word: have a thing
word: see
word: step out
Hyponyms: word: go steady
word: lock down
word: make beautiful music together
word: play the field
Derived terms: antedate
backdate
crossdate
dateable
date back
date-me doc
date out
date up
downdate
foredate
misdate
online date
outdate
overdate
postdate
predate
redate
retrodate
update
Related terms: word: Sabbath
word: calendar
word: make a move [on]
word: make a play [for]
word: make time
word: courtship
word: woo